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Wild Bill: Collector’s Inner Sanctum
Middletown - In a far corner of Wild Bill’s Nostalgia Center, if you can squeeze your way past his collection of 500 hand-painted Lithuanian trolls, and his case of giant trilobites from Morocco, you might be able to wedge open the door into his office. Full story
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Featured Attractions
Timexpo Museum and Easter Island Statue
Waterbury, Connecticut
Timex's corporate museum blends a history of timepieces with a mysterious journey to Easter Island.
Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities
Hartford, Connecticut
This recreation of a historic 19th century Cabinet of Curiosities collection contains many taxidermy marvels.
Holy Land USA
Waterbury, Connecticut
A long-closed attraction that gets more interesting as it decays.
Wild Bill's Nostalgia Center
Middletown, Connecticut
A farm silo turned into the World's Largest Jack-in-the-Box is just another freaky project for senior love child Wild Bill Ziegler.
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- Bridgeport: Barnum Merman Barnum Museum [tips]
- Bristol: American Clock and Watch Museum [tips]
- Cornwall: Cursed Dudleytown [tips]
- Cromwell: Wacky car wash [tips]
- Hartford: Cabinet of Curiosities
- Hartford: Trash Museum [tips]
- Milford: Parrots of Connecticut [tips]
- Middletown: Wild Bill's Nostalgia Center
- New Britain: Iwo Jima Monument replica
- New Haven: Birthplace of the Hamburger [tips]
- New Haven: Midnight Mary Grave [tips]
- New Haven: Knights of Columbus Museum [tips]
- Norwalk: World's Largest Dairy Store
- Southington: Neglected dinosaurs [tips]
- Stratford: Antique Toll Booth [tips]
- Stratford: Children's Garbage Museum [tips]
- Uncasville: Wells Dinosaur Haven
- Waterbury: Holy Land USA
- Waterbury: Timexpo Museum & Easter Island Statue
- West Haven: Savin Rock Museum [tips]
- Willimantic: Giant Frogs on Thread Spools [tips]
- Windsor Locks: Space Shuttle McDonald's [tips]
