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 - Bethel: P.T. Barnum Statue
- Bridgeport: Barnum Museum: Centaur Skeleton
- Bridgeport: First Airplane Flew Here
- Bridgeport: Mermaid and Mer-Baby
- Bridgeport: P. T. Barnum Statue
- Bridgeport: Tom Thumb, P. T. Barnum Graves
- Bridgeport: Vatican Gardens Knockoff
- Bristol: America's Oldest Amusement Park
- Bristol: American Clock and Watch Museum
- Bristol: New England Carousel Museum
- Bristol: North America's Tallest Elevator Test Tower
- Bristol: Witch's Dungeon Classic Movie Museum
- Brookfield: Large Santa
- Cheshire: Barker Character, Comic, and Cartoon Museum
- Cheshire: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Colchester: Miracle Survivor Mary Statue
- Danbury: John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant
- Danbury: Sybil Ludington: The British are Coming!
- Danbury: World's Tallest Uncle Sam
- East Granby: Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine
- East Haddam: Gillette Castle - Sherlock Holmes Apartment
- East Haddam: The Moodus Noises
- East Hartford: Lincoln Career Column
- East Hartford: Lincoln Welcomes Your Conversation
- East Windsor: Connecticut Trolley and Fire Museum
- Eastford: Frog Rock Roadside Park
- Goshen: Action Wildlife - Taxidermy Exhibit
- Greenwich: Washington Loved the View Here
- Groton: Submarine Force Museum: USS Nautilus
- Guilford: Colorful Turkeys
- Hamden: Ernest Borgnine Park
- Hartford: Circus Horror Memorial
- Hartford: Jack, First Presidential Pardon Turkey
- Hartford: Mini Lincoln Meets Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Hartford: Museum of Natural and Other Curiosities
- Kent: Sculpturedale
- Marlborough: Snake Rock
- Meriden: Traffic Control Tower
- Middletown: Sgt Stubby: World War I Hero Dog
- Milford: Mass Grave Monument To Smallpox Dead
- Montville: Sparky the Firehouse Dog Rock
- Morris Cove: Mission Creep Fire Hydrant
- Mystic: Mystic Pizza - As Seen in Movie
- Mystic: St. Edmund's Severed Arm
- New Britain: Super Cow - Dairy Mascot
- New Britain: Tour a Tiny Soda Factory
- New Canaan: The Glass House
- New Haven: Climb a Monument, See Connecticut
- New Haven: Home of the Hamburger
- New Haven: Knights of Columbus Museum
- New Haven: Midnight Mary's Grave
- New Haven: New Haven Green: Bodies Underfoot
- New Milford: Space Shuttle Tire
- Newington: Iwo Jima Survivors Memorial Park
- Noank: Wrong Site of Amelia Earhart's Secret Wedding
- Norwalk: World's Largest Dairy Store
- Norwich: Miantonomo Monument
- Norwich: Muffler Man Cowboy: Big Bob
- Norwich: Mummified Human Arm
- Oakdale: The Dinosaur Place
- Old Lyme: Woodrow Wilson's Canoe
- Old Saybrook: Praying Mantis Reads Lord of the Flies
- Orange: PEZ Visitor Center
- Preston: Snoopy Rock
- Preston: Spotty the Rock Dog
- Putnam: Museum in a Boxcar
- Rockville: New England Motorcycle Museum
- Sachem Head: Stonehenge Replica (Private)
- Scotland: D'Elia Antique Tool Museum
- Shelton: White Squirrels of Shelton
- Stafford Springs: 9/11 Beam Memorial to Local Flight Crew
- Storrs: Museum of Puppetry
- Stratford: National Helicopter Museum
- Stratford: Obsolete Toll Booths On Display
- Terryville: Smiling Steer in a Cowboy Hat
- Uncasville: Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame
- Uncasville: Tantaquidgeon Museum
- Uncasville: Wells Dinosaur Haven
- Union: Traveler Restaurant: Free Books
- Waterbury: Button Museum
- Waterbury: Holy Land USA
- Waterbury: JFK: I'll Be Back in 1964
- Waterbury: Little People Village
- West Hartford: Conny, the Walk-Thru Outdoor Whale
- West Haven: Large Stanley Cup Statue
- West Haven: Savin Rock Museum - Laff in the Dark
- Westbrook: Art Carney Tribute
- Willimantic: Boom Box Parade
- Willimantic: Giant Frogs on Thread Spools
- Windsor: Tobacco Museum
- Winsted: American Museum of Tort Law
- Winsted: Castle Tower Civil War Monument
- Winsted: Diner Hot Dog Statue
- Woodbury: Leslie Murray's Junk People
- 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...
- 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
