Connecticut Curiosities

From the front, it looks like any grand home in Hartford, but from the side, well, The Austin House is not quite what it seems.

The Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry is a unique place, home to one of the leading puppetry schools in the world as well as dozens of antique puppets and marionettes, making …

Home to such curiosities as the Feejee mermaid and the 4,000-year-old mummy Pa-Ib, the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport is dedicated to the colorful history of the King of the Humbugs.

Boothe Park proves the old adage, “If you have time, money, space, some significant eccentricities and the inclination to build stuff, then you too can create a bizarre memorial to yourself that …

Center Church in New Haven is a little different from your normal centuries-old place of worship as it was built over a cemetery — not on, but over, as the original tombstones …

According to local history, notorious pirate Captain William Kidd visited Milford during his final voyage in 1699, a stop along the way to Boston (where he would be subsequently arrested and imprisoned …

Sure, you can get your car washed in any number of fine establishments, but how many of them have a dinosaur ripping through the roof?

Rarely does a location steeped in wealth, affluence and luxury seem capable of bringing doom and woe to those who live there, but such is the case of Dunnellen Hall.