Connecticut Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Connecticut. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports.
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Amston: Eagle Rock
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Bethel: P.T. Barnum Statue
- Bridgeport: Barnum Museum: Centaur Skeleton
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Bridgeport: Mermaid and Mer-Baby
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Bridgeport: P. T. Barnum Statue
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Bridgeport: Tom Thumb, P. T. Barnum Graves
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Bridgeport: Vatican Gardens Knockoff
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Bristol: America's Oldest Amusement Park
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Bristol: American Clock and Watch Museum
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Bristol: New England Carousel Museum
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Bristol: North America's Tallest Elevator Test Tower
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Bristol: Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum
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Brookfield: Large Santa
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Cheshire: Barker Character, Comic, and Cartoon Museum
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Cheshire: Muffler Man: Bunyan
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Colchester: Miracle Survivor Mary Statue
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Danbury: John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant
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Danbury: Sybil Ludington: The British are Coming!
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Danbury: World's Tallest Uncle Sam
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East Granby: Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine
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East Haddam: Gillette Castle - Sherlock Holmes Apartment
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East Haddam: The Moodus Noises
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East Hartford: Lincoln Career Column
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East Hartford: Lincoln Welcomes Your Conversation
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East Windsor: Connecticut Trolley and Fire Museum
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Eastford: Frog Rock Roadside Park
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Goshen: Action Wildlife - Taxidermy Exhibit
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Greenwich: Washington Loved the View Here
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Groton: Submarine Force Museum: USS Nautilus
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Guilford: Colorful Turkeys
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Hamden: Ernest Borgnine Park
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Hartford: Circus Horror Memorial
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Hartford: Jack, First Presidential Pardon Turkey
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Hartford: Mini Lincoln Meets Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Hartford: Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities
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Kent: Sculpturedale
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Marlborough: Snake Rock
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Meriden: Traffic Control Tower
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Middletown: Sgt Stubby: World War I Hero Dog
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Milford: Mass Grave Monument To Smallpox Dead
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Montville: Sparky the Firehouse Dog Rock
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Morris Cove: Mission Creep Fire Hydrant
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Mystic: Fish Made of Dining Utensils
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Mystic: Mystic Pizza - As Seen in Movie
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Mystic: St. Edmund's Severed Arm
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New Britain: Super Cow - Dairy Mascot
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New Britain: Tour a Tiny Soda Factory
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New Canaan: The Glass House
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New Haven: Climb a Monument, See Connecticut
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New Haven: Home of the Hamburger
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New Haven: Knights of Columbus Museum
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New Haven: Midnight Mary's Grave
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New Haven: New Haven Green: Bodies Underfoot
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New Milford: Space Shuttle Tire
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Newington: Iwo Jima Survivors Memorial Park
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Noank: Wrong Site of Amelia Earhart's Secret Wedding
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Norwalk: World's Largest Dairy Store
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Norwich: Miantonomo Monument
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Norwich: Muffler Man Cowboy: Big Bob
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Norwich: Mummified Human Arm
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Oakdale: The Dinosaur Place
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Old Lyme: Woodrow Wilson's Canoe
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Old Saybrook: Praying Mantis Reads Lord of the Flies
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Orange: PEZ Visitor Center
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Preston: Snoopy Rock
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Preston: Spotty the Rock Dog
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Putnam: Museum in a Boxcar
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Rockville: New England Motorcycle Museum
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Sachem Head: Stonehenge Replica (Private)
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Scotland: D'Elia Antique Tool Museum
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Shelton: White Squirrels of Shelton
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Stafford Springs: 9/11 Beam Memorial to Local Flight Crew
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Storrs: Museum of Puppetry
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Stratford: National Helicopter Museum
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Stratford: Obsolete Toll Booths On Display
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Terryville: Smiling Steer in a Cowboy Hat
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Uncasville: Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame
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Uncasville: Tantaquidgeon Museum
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Uncasville: Wells Dinosaur Haven
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Union: Traveler Restaurant: Free Books
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Waterbury: Button Museum
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Waterbury: Holy Land USA
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Waterbury: JFK: I'll Be Back in 1964
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Waterbury: Little People Village
- West Hartford: Conny the Whale's Tail
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West Haven: Large Stanley Cup Statue
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West Haven: Savin Rock Museum - Laff in the Dark
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Westbrook: Art Carney Tribute
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Willimantic: Boom Box Parade
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Willimantic: Giant Frogs on Thread Spools
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Windsor: Tobacco Museum
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Winsted: American Museum of Tort Law
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Winsted: Castle Tower Civil War Monument
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Winsted: Hot Dog Man Statue
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Woodbury: Leslie Murray's Junk People
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Woodstock: Oldest Bowling Alley
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Bridgeport: First Airplane Flew Here
- Cheshire: Wheel Auto Parts Man
- Cornwall Bridge: Cursed Dudleytown Ghost Village
- Cromwell: Nutty Car Wash
- Enfield: Giant Legos
- Fairfield: Monk Parrot Nests
- Hamden: Ghost Parking Lot
- Hartford: Trash Museum
- Hartford: Trophy Shop Elvis Nook
- Killingly: Mr. Whipple's Christmas Wonderland and Gravestone Chapel
- Middletown: Cadillac Ranch Tribute Made of Yugos
- Middletown: Wild Bill's Nostalgia Center
- Norwich: Sanctuary of Love
- Old Lyme: Nut Lady and the Nut Museum
- Putnam: Free Hollywood Museum
- Ridgefield: Entropy and Watermelons
- Southington: Backyard Concrete Dinosaur
- Stamford: Giant Marilyn Monroe
- Stratford: Garbage Museum
- Waterbury: Timexpo Museum and Easter Island Statue
- Windsor Locks: Space Shuttle McDonald's
- Winsted: Tractor Climbing a Tree