Haunted Connecticut

64 haunted destinations cataloged across Connecticut, spanning 16 counties. The collection features outdoor, museum, and cemetery — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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HABS exterior view (front and west side) of the Ives Memorial Library, New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, Connecticut (HABS CT-414)

Museum / Historical Site

New Haven Free Public Library (Ives Memorial Library)

New Haven, CT

The Ives Memorial Library was commissioned in 1907 from architect Cass Gilbert and dedicated to the City of New Haven on May 27, 1911. It was funded by Mary E. Ives in memory of her husband and built on the historic site of the early-19th-century Judge William Bristol house, facing the New Haven Green. Interior features include 1934 Rip Van Winkle-themed Depression-era murals and stained-glass windows by David Wilson; the building was renovated and expanded in 1990.

$ All Ages Family: High

Outdoor / Natural Site

Lighthouse Point Park

New Haven, CT

Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven, Connecticut, occupies 82 acres at the eastern tip of New Haven Harbor. The Five Mile Point Light at the park's edge was built in 1847 after Congress appropriated $10,000 for its construction; it replaced an earlier 1804 light on land acquired from farmer Amos Morris. The lighthouse served as an active aid to navigation until 1877, when the offshore Southwest Ledge Light took over harbor guidance duties.

$ All Ages Family: High

Detroit Publishing Company photochrom of Vanderbilt Hall on Yale University's Old Campus along Chapel Street in New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1900-1915.

Other Dark Tourism Site

Vanderbilt Hall (Yale University)

New Haven, CT

Vanderbilt Hall is a U-shaped Tudor-Gothic dormitory at the southeast corner of Yale's Old Campus, designed by Charles C. Haight and completed in 1894. It was the gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt II to memorialize his son William H. Vanderbilt II (1870-1892), who contracted typhoid fever during a tour of the western United States and died during his junior year at Yale.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Connecticut's Old State House

Hartford, CT

Connecticut's Old State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch and opened in 1796, served as the state's seat of government for 82 years before becoming a museum. The site previously held the colonial meetinghouse, on or near which Alice Young was hanged in 1647 in what is generally considered the first witchcraft execution in the American colonies.

$ All Ages Family: High

United Bank Building, New Milford, Connecticut.

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Haunted Dining / Bar

Bank Street Coffee House

New Milford, CT

Bank Street Coffee House occupied a historic three-story masonry building in downtown New Milford, Connecticut, part of the town's commercial district dating to the turn of the 20th century. The venue operated as a coffee shop for over 20 years before closing in October 2017.

$ All Ages Family: High

Somersville Historic District, Somers, Connecticut.

Haunted Dining / Bar

Joanna's Cafe & Banquet Hall

Somers, CT

Joanna's Cafe & Banquet Hall occupies a 19th-century building on Main Street in Somers, a historic Connecticut town. The structure is located in the Somers Historic District, an area characterized by Federal and Greek Revival architecture from the early 1800s.

$$ All Ages Family: High

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Hartford — 11

The 1782 Butler-McCook Homestead on Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut, one of the city's oldest surviving houses.

Haunted House / Historic Home

Butler-McCook House and Garden

Hartford, CT

Built in 1782 for Dr. Daniel Butler, the house at 396 Main Street is one of Hartford's only surviving 18th-century buildings and the sole 18th-century home remaining on Main Street. It was occupied by four generations of the Butler and McCook families from 1782 until 1971, when descendant Frances McCook bequeathed the property — fully furnished — to the Antiquarian & Landmarks Society (now Connecticut Landmarks). The house operates as a museum today.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Cedar Hill Cemetery

Hartford, CT

Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, was established in 1864 and designed by Swiss-American landscape architect Jacob Weidenmann, who also designed Hartford's Bushnell Park. The 270-acre rural-movement cemetery holds more than 35,000 burials including actress Katharine Hepburn, financier J.P. Morgan, and women's rights activist Katharine Houghton Hepburn.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Connecticut State Capitol

Hartford, CT

The Connecticut State Capitol at 210 Capitol Avenue opened in 1878 as the seat of the Connecticut General Assembly. Designed by Richard Mitchell Upjohn in the Eastlake Victorian Gothic style with prominent High Victorian Gothic detailing, the white marble and granite building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971. It replaced the Old State House as Connecticut's seat of government.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Hartford, CT

Built in 1871, the Gothic Revival cottage at 77 Forest Street became the home of abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband Calvin in 1873 and remained her residence until her death in 1896. Stowe — author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) — lived in the Nook Farm neighborhood alongside Mark Twain and other Hartford writers. The home opened to the public as a museum in 1968 and operates today as the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for Literary Activism.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Hartford City Hall

Hartford, CT

Hartford City Hall — formally the Municipal Building at 550 Main Street — was completed in 1915 on land donated by financier J. Pierpont Morgan, who sought a use for the parcel adjacent to a wing he had donated to the Wadsworth Atheneum. Davis & Brooks won the design competition with a Beaux-Arts composition: brick faced with Bethel white granite, a copper-and-tile roof, bronze doors, and a 25-by-150-foot three-story central atrium lit by a skylight. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and remains Connecticut's most ornate Beaux-Arts building built for local government.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Isham-Terry House

Hartford, CT

The Isham-Terry House is a 15-room Italianate Victorian mansion built around 1854 at 211 High Street in Hartford. Dr. Oliver Isham purchased the home in 1896 and used part of it as his medical practice; his sisters Julia and Charlotte lived in the house until their deaths in the 1970s. The sisters preserved the home largely unchanged from the late 19th century, and at Julia's death in 1979 the property passed to the Antiquarian & Landmarks Society (now Connecticut Landmarks), which operates it as a museum.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

South view of the 1874 Gothic Revival Mark Twain House at 351 Farmington Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter.

Museum / Historical Site

The Mark Twain House & Museum

Hartford, CT

Built in 1874 for Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), his wife Olivia, and their three daughters, the 25-room Gothic Revival mansion designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter served as the family home until 1891. Clemens wrote seven major works here including 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' Financial reverses and the 1896 death of daughter Susy made the family unable to return, and the house was sold in 1903. It opened as a museum in 1974 and is a National Historic Landmark.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Outdoor / Natural Site

Sigourney Square Park

Hartford, CT

Sigourney Square Park is a square-block 1895 municipal park in Hartford's Asylum Hill neighborhood, bordered by Sargeant, Sigourney, Ashley, and May Streets. The land was previously part of Hartford's town farm — a 19th-century facility providing housing and work for the city's indigent population — and includes the unmarked graves of 49 smallpox victims interred during an 1872 outbreak. The town farm closed in 1896 and the park was created on a portion of the property. The Sigourney Square Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

$ All Ages Family: High

The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History (formerly Connecticut Historical Society) at 1 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, founded 1825 and rebranded 2023.

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Museum / Historical Site

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History

Hartford, CT

Founded in 1825 in Hartford by Thomas Robbins, John Trumbull, and other prominent Connecticut citizens, the institution is among the oldest historical societies in the United States and serves as Connecticut's official state historical society. After nearly two centuries as the Connecticut Historical Society, the organization rebranded in 2023 as the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. The museum at 1 Elizabeth Street holds more than 270,000 artifacts and 100,000 books and pamphlets and runs a 'CHS Gets Creepy' tour each fall.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The Hartford Circus Fire Memorial behind the Wish School at 350 Barbour Street in Hartford, Connecticut, with dogwood trees outlining the 1944 Big Top tent and bronze plaques marking the chronology of the fire.

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Hartford Circus Fire Memorial

Hartford, CT

On the afternoon of July 6, 1944, the Big Top tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus caught fire during a matinee performance attended by roughly 7,000 people at the Barbour Street showgrounds in Hartford. The fire killed 168 people, the majority of them children, and injured hundreds more, becoming one of the deadliest fire disasters in American history. The site, behind what is now the Wish School at 350 Barbour Street, was dedicated as a permanent memorial on July 6, 2005 — the 61st anniversary of the fire — with bronze plaques, named-victim memorials, and dogwood trees outlining the original tent.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch designed by George Keller and dedicated September 17, 1886 in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut — the first permanent memorial arch built in America.

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Museum / Historical Site

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch

Hartford, CT

Dedicated on September 17, 1886, the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Hartford's Bushnell Park honors the approximately 4,000 Hartford citizens who served in the Civil War and the 400 who died. Designed by Hartford-based architect George Keller (1842–1935), it was the first permanent memorial arch built in America. Keller asked to be entombed in the east tower of his own monument when he died on July 7, 1935 — citing 'a horror of cemeteries' — and the ashes of his wife Mary joined his in the same tower after her death in 1946.

$ All Ages Family: High

New Haven — 7

Battlefield / Military Site

Fort Nathan Hale Park

New Haven, CT

Fort Nathan Hale Park, also called Fort Hale Park, is a 20-acre city park on the east shore of New Haven Harbor. The site contains the reconstructed remains of three successive fortifications: a 1659 colonial fort, the 1776 Black Rock Fort that was captured by British General William Tryon in 1779, and the 1807-1812 Fort Nathan Hale that defended the harbor during the War of 1812. A second Civil War-era Fort Nathan Hale was added in 1863. All three forts have been reconstructed, including a drawbridge, moat, ramparts, powder magazines, and a bombproof bunker.

$ All Ages Family: High

Federal-style Center Church on the Green, built 1812-1814, on the New Haven Green in New Haven, Connecticut, with the crypt of 137 stones beneath the sanctuary.

Other Dark Tourism Site

Center Church on the Green (The Crypt)

New Haven, CT

Center Church on the Green is a Federal-style Congregational meetinghouse built 1812-1814, the third building on the site of a congregation organized August 23, 1639 by New Haven Colony founders John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton. It stands directly over a portion of New Haven's original 1638 burying ground; the crypt beneath the sanctuary preserves 137 marked headstones in their original positions.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Pink granite gravestone of Mary E. Hart in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Evergreen Cemetery (Midnight Mary's Grave)

New Haven, CT

Evergreen Cemetery is a historic New Haven cemetery established in the 1840s on the west side of the city; the section housing Midnight Mary's grave dates from the early 1870s. Mary E. Hart was born December 16, 1824 and died October 15, 1872 at age 47 after a sudden collapse. Her pink-granite gravestone carries an unusually narrative epitaph plus a biblical citation from Job 34:20.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Grove Street Cemetery

New Haven, CT

Grove Street Cemetery was organized in 1796 as the New Haven Burying Ground and incorporated in October 1797, the first chartered private nonprofit cemetery in the United States. Its 1845 Egyptian Revival brownstone gateway, designed by New Haven architect Henry Austin and carved by Hezekiah Augur, is a leading example of the style in America. The cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Shubert Theatre

New Haven, CT

The Shubert opened December 11, 1914 with 'The Belle of Bond Street,' designed by New York architect Albert Swazey and built by H.E. Murdock Construction for the Shubert Brothers, who named it for their late brother Sam S. Shubert. It became the country's most active Broadway tryout house — over 600 out-of-town tryouts, more than 300 world premieres and 50 American premieres — before closing in 1976 and reopening in 1983 under city ownership.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Vintage Tichnor Brothers linen postcard of Judges' Cave at West Rock Park in New Haven, Connecticut, where the regicides Whalley and Goffe hid in 1661.

Outdoor / Natural Site

Judges Cave (West Rock Ridge State Park)

New Haven, CT

Edward Whalley and William Goffe, two of 59 English judges who signed Charles I's death warrant in 1649, fled to New England after the 1660 restoration of Charles II. Beginning May 15, 1661 they hid in a boulder shelter atop West Rock for several weeks, fed in secret by Puritan Richard Sperry, before relocating to Hadley, Massachusetts. The site is preserved within West Rock Ridge State Park and marked on the Regicides Trail.

$ All Ages Family: High

Other Dark Tourism Site

Union and New Haven Trust Building

New Haven, CT

The 13-story Union and New Haven Trust Building was designed by New York architects Cross and Cross and completed in 1928 at the northeast corner of the New Haven Green. Its Colonial Revival massing and the cupola were specifically designed to echo the three churches on the Green; the cupola mirrors the design of the United Church on the Green. Union Trust departed for Stamford in 1981 and the building now contains a Wells Fargo branch on the ground floor.

$ All Ages Family: High

Burlington — 2

Lamson Corner Cemetery, Burlington Connecticut

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Lampson Corner Cemetery

Burlington, CT

Lampson Corner Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Burlington, Connecticut, containing graves spanning from the colonial period through the 20th century. The cemetery holds the graves of several local families and, per the Shadowlands report, at least one World War II veteran. Burlington's cemetery complex is most widely known for its connection to the 'Green Lady' legend centered at the nearby Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery.

$ All Ages Family: High

The Loyalist Tory Den rock shelter cave along the Tunxis Trail in Burlington, Connecticut, used as a Revolutionary War hideout

Prison / Reformatory

Tory's Prison (Stone Road)

Burlington, CT

The small stone-and-cement structure on Stone Road in Burlington, Connecticut is locally known as Tory's Prison. Its popular name connects it to the Revolutionary War, but the building's actual origin is the Depression-era Camp Nepaug, which housed transients and included a stone jailhouse for disciplinary use.

$ All Ages Family: High

Killingworth — 2

Nineveh Falls on the Hammonasset River at the Killingworth-Madison border in Connecticut

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Nineveh Falls

Killingworth, CT

Nineveh Falls is a waterfall on the Hammonasset River at the border of Killingworth and Madison, Connecticut, accessible off Old Toll Road (CT-80). The site has been associated with Tunxis tribal history, including accounts of the tribe meeting in the crevasses of the falls area to discuss matters of trade and war. The high cliffs above the falls acquired the local name Lover's Leap from the pre-colonial legend attached to the site.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The closed Killingworth Inn building on Route 81 in Killingworth, Connecticut

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Haunted House / Historic Home

The Killingworth Inn (The Old Inn)

Killingworth, CT

The building at 249 Route 81 in Killingworth, Connecticut has hosted a continuous succession of taverns, restaurants, and inns since approximately 1790. The most recent operation, the Killingworth Inn & Cafe, is currently closed per regional restaurant directories.

$ All Ages Family: High

Monroe — 2

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Stepney Cemetery

Monroe, CT

Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut was established in 1794 when Noah and James Burr Jr. donated land adjacent to Stepney Green. The cemetery is best known as the burial site of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, founders of the New England Society for Psychic Research, alongside many of Monroe's earliest settlers.

$ All Ages Family: High

Residential home at 30 Knollwood Street in Monroe, Connecticut — the former home of Ed and Lorraine Warren

Haunted House / Historic Home

Warren House (Ed & Lorraine Warren Home)

Monroe, CT

Ed Warren (1926–2006) and Lorraine Warren (1927–2019) were the most famous paranormal investigators in American history — demonologists whose case files included the Amityville haunting and the Perron family case that inspired The Conjuring films. They lived at 30 Knollwood Street in Monroe, Connecticut, and operated their Occult Museum from the home's basement from 1952 until zoning issues forced its closure in 2019.

$$$$ 18+ to book; minors must have parent/guardian present Family: Not Recommended

Seymour — 2

B1046 Meadow Road/Ladys Hill, Great Gransden

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Great Hill Road

Seymour, CT

Great Hill Road in Seymour, Connecticut, traverses the wooded ridge country of the Naugatuck Valley's eastern margin. A motorcyclist was killed on the road's sharp downhill curve in an accident documented in local community accounts. The road runs near Great Hill Cemetery, known locally as Hookman's Cemetery, one of the more storied burial grounds in New Haven County.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Great Hill Cemetery (Hookman's Cemetery), Seymour, Connecticut

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Hookman's Cemetery (Great Hill Cemetery)

Seymour, CT

Great Hill Cemetery in Seymour, Connecticut was established in 1798 and contains graves dating to the late 18th century. It is a privately maintained rural burial ground with family names typical of early Naugatuck Valley settlers, including Holbrook, Smith, Lum, and Tomlinson. Cemetery records are held in the Charles R. Hale Collection at the Connecticut State Library.

$ All Ages Family: High

Voluntown — 2

Breakneck Hill Road bend in Voluntown, Connecticut

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Battlefield / Military Site

Breakneck Hill Road

Voluntown, CT

Breakneck Hill Road crosses land in Voluntown, Connecticut, which was established in 1700 as a settlement grant for veterans of the Narragansett War. The town was officially incorporated in 1721 and remains a testament to Connecticut's colonial military history.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Outdoor / Natural Site

Pachaug State Forest

Voluntown, CT

Pachaug State Forest is Connecticut's largest state forest, covering more than 27,000 acres in eastern Connecticut. Hell Hollow Road, a dirt road on the Sterling-Voluntown border, runs through the forest and is the focal point of the regional Maud's Grave legend.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Watertown — 2

Museum / Historical Site

Leatherman's Cave

Watertown, CT

Leatherman's Cave is a rock shelter on the Mattatuck Trail near Black Rock State Park in Watertown, Connecticut. It is one of dozens of rock overhangs used between approximately 1858 and 1889 by the man known to nineteenth-century Connecticut and lower Hudson Valley residents as the Leather Man, who walked a roughly 365-mile circular route every 34 days for nearly three decades.

$ All Ages Family: High

Colonial-era brownstone grave markers at the Old Watertown Cemetery at the corner of French and Main Streets, Watertown, Connecticut

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Old Watertown Cemetery

Watertown, CT

The Old Watertown Cemetery at the corner of French and Main Streets in Watertown, Connecticut is the town's oldest burial ground, with its first recorded interment in 1741. It contains 963 gravestones spanning nearly 200 years of Watertown's history. Among those buried here is Reverend John Trumbull (1715–1787), a poet of the American Revolution and a significant figure in Connecticut literary and religious history.

$ All Ages Family: High

Berlin — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Lamentation Mountain

Berlin, CT

Lamentation Mountain is a 720-foot basalt traprock ridge in Berlin, Connecticut, part of the Metacomet Ridge system that extends from Long Island Sound to the Vermont border. The mountain's name traces to 1653, when a colonial settler was lost on the peak for three days before rescue — giving the place a name rooted in distress. The 47-acre Lamentation Mountain State Park is managed by Connecticut DEEP.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bethel — 1

Bethel Volunteer Fire Department building on South Street, Bethel, Connecticut

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Bethel Volunteer Fire Department

Bethel, CT

Bethel Volunteer Fire Department was established in 1831 as the original Bethel Fire Company, making it one of Connecticut's oldest continuously operating volunteer fire services. The department consolidated several historic volunteer companies and has provided 24/7 emergency coverage to Bethel for nearly two centuries.

$ All Ages Family: High

Branford — 1

Woodland hiking trail at Branford Supply Pond Park in Connecticut

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Branford Supply Pond Park

Branford, CT

Branford Supply Pond Park encompasses woodlands and trails in Branford, Connecticut, built on territory historically inhabited by the Totoket people of the Quinnipiac Nation. The area was established as English settlement in 1644, making it one of Connecticut's oldest communities.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bristol — 1

Other Dark Tourism Site

Lake Compounce Amusement Park

Bristol, CT

Lake Compounce opened in 1846 on land that had been the domain of the Mattatuck-Tunxis people, signed over to English settlers in December 1684. The park's 180-year continuous operation makes it the oldest running amusement park in the United States. Owned by Herschend Family Entertainment, the 332-acre property in Bristol, Connecticut includes a lake, beach, and the 1927 Wildcat wooden roller coaster.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Brooklyn — 1

The 1771 Old Trinity Church and its burying ground in Brooklyn, Connecticut

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Old Trinity Church, Brooklyn

Brooklyn, CT

Trinity Church in Brooklyn, Connecticut, was completed in 1771 and is the oldest Episcopal church in the state. The Georgian wood-frame building, supervised by Anglican churchman Godfrey Malbone, retains original box pews and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. The congregation now worships in a newer building and uses the old church for special events.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Coventry — 1

The 1776 Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry, Connecticut

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Museum / Historical Site

Nathan Hale Homestead

Coventry, CT

The Nathan Hale Homestead at 2299 South Street in Coventry is the 1776 farmhouse built by the family of Deacon Richard Hale, father of Revolutionary patriot and spy Nathan Hale. Nathan never lived in the standing house, which replaced an earlier home. Attorney George Dudley Seymour bought and restored the property in 1914, and Connecticut Landmarks now operates it as a house museum.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Derby — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Harcourt Wood Memorial Library

Derby, CT

The Harcourt Wood Memorial Library opened on December 27, 1902 as a memorial to Harcourt Wood, the son of Colonel H. Holton Wood and Alice Wood, who died in February 1897 at age eleven after contracting meningitis. The library was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

$ All Ages Family: High

East Granby — 1

Old New-Gate Prison stone ruins, East Granby Connecticut

Prison / Reformatory

Old New-Gate Prison & Copper Mine

East Granby, CT

Old New-Gate Prison occupies a copper mine on the western slope of Talcott Mountain in East Granby, Connecticut. The mine opened in 1707, was converted into Connecticut's first state prison in 1773, held British loyalists during the Revolutionary War, and operated as a state penitentiary until 1827. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972, it is now a Connecticut state museum.

$ All Ages; mine tour requires the ability to navigate stairs and confined spaces Family: Moderate

East Hartford — 1

Makens Bemont House, East Hartford, Connecticut.

Haunted House / Historic Home

Huguenot House (Makens Bemont House)

East Hartford, CT

The Makens Bemont House, known as the Huguenot House, was constructed in 1761 by Edmund Bemont in East Hartford, Connecticut. Makens Bemont, Edmund's son, built considerable wealth as a saddlemaker in the decades following the Revolution. In 1968, Adolph Rosenthal donated the property to the Historical Society of East Hartford, which relocated the structure in 1971.

$ All Ages Family: High

Easton — 1

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Union Cemetery

Easton, CT

Union Cemetery sits at the intersection of Sport Hill and Stepney roads in Easton, Connecticut, adjacent to the Easton Baptist Church. The earliest recorded burial is that of Ebenezer Hubbell in 1761; the cemetery served as a communal graveyard for several local Protestant congregations before formal incorporation as the Union Cemetery Association in 1902.

$ All Ages Family: High

Fairfield — 1

Stone and brick carriage house on the Fairfield University campus in Fairfield, Connecticut

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Fairfield University (Former PepsiCo Theatre)

Fairfield, CT

Fairfield University, a Jesuit institution founded in 1942, occupies a campus on what was originally the Walter Lashar estate. The PepsiCo Theatre was a renovated 1922 carriage house that served as the home of Theatre Fairfield, with a 70-seat black-box space and studio facilities. The building has since been converted to the School of Engineering Innovation Annex.

$ Active college campus Family: High

Kensington — 1

Southington Road Cemetery (South Burying Ground), Kensington, Berlin CT

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Southington Road Cemetery (South Burying Ground)

Kensington, CT

The South Burying Ground in Kensington (part of Berlin, Hartford County) is one of several Colonial-era cemeteries in Berlin. Berlin was formally incorporated in 1785 and Kensington has been a distinct village within it since the 18th century. The cemetery records are documented through local historical society resources and the Berlin Town government cemetery committee.

$ All Ages Family: High

Litchfield — 1

The white-clapboard Litchfield Inn on Bantam Road in the Litchfield Hills

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Litchfield Inn

Litchfield, CT

The Litchfield Inn is a family-owned boutique hotel on Bantam Road in the Litchfield Hills of northwestern Connecticut. The property has operated as an inn for more than four decades and offers 32 guestrooms in a multi-building footprint, including 12 individually themed suites.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Meriden — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Hubbard Park

Meriden, CT

Hubbard Park was donated to Meriden by Walter Hubbard, president of Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company, who spent $400,000-$500,000 of his own money clearing land and building Mirror Lake with help from Frederick Law Olmsted. Castle Craig was dedicated in 1900.

$ All Ages Family: High

Milford — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Charles Island

Milford, CT

Charles Island sits in the Housatonic estuary off Silver Sands State Beach in Milford, connected to the mainland by a tidal sandbar that submerges twice daily. European settlers traded for the island from the Paugusset chief in 1639 amid significant conflict. In 1699, Scottish pirate Captain William Kidd allegedly buried treasure on the island — the last voyage of his career before his trial and execution. A Dominican monastery built in the 1930s was later abandoned. A 1950s restaurant project ended in a lethal fire of undetermined cause.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Morris — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Camp Columbia

Morris, CT

Camp Columbia was established in 1903 when Columbia University purchased rural Litchfield County property for use as an engineering and surveying field campus. A fieldstone dining hall was constructed in 1934, followed by the iconic 60-foot cylindrical stone water tower completed in 1942. The campus operated as a field school for engineering students through much of the 20th century before eventual abandonment.

$ All Ages Family: High

Naugatuck — 1

Colonial-era headstones at Gunntown Cemetery, Naugatuck, Connecticut

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Gunntown Cemetery

Naugatuck, CT

Gunntown Cemetery was established in 1790 on a hill above the Naugatuck River in the Millville section of Naugatuck, Connecticut. It is named for the Gunn family, whose patriarch Jasper Gunn (1606–1670) emigrated from Scotland and whose descendants operated an 800-acre parcel in the region. The cemetery holds Revolutionary War veterans, War of 1812 soldiers, and Civil War dead.

$ All Ages Family: High

New London — 1

Museum / Historical Site

New London Ledge Lighthouse

New London, CT

Built in 1909 at the mouth of the Thames River, New London Ledge Lighthouse is a three-story brick structure designed in a French Second Empire style to complement the elegant coastal homes of New London. It served Long Island Sound shipping until automation in 1987 and now operates as a museum under the New London Maritime Society.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Newtown — 1

The 1932 Cyrenius H. Booth Library on Main Street in Newtown, Connecticut

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Museum / Historical Site

Cyrenius H. Booth Library

Newtown, CT

The Cyrenius H. Booth Library opened on December 17, 1932 as the public library of Newtown, Connecticut. It was a posthumous gift of Mary Elizabeth Hawley and was named for her maternal grandfather, Dr. Cyrenius Hard Booth, who practiced medicine in Newtown from 1820 until his death in 1871. The building was designed by Philip Sutherland in a residential Main Street style and was completely fireproof. Hawley also left a quarter-million-dollar trust fund to generate operating income for the library.

$ All Ages Family: High

Norfolk — 1

Front Facade of The Blackberry River Inn in Norfolk, CT

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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Blackberry River Inn

Norfolk, CT

Blackberry River Inn, historically known as the Moseley House-Farm, was constructed in 1763 as a colonial mansion in Norfolk, Connecticut. The property operated as a working farm until 1939, was converted into an inn in the 1960s, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Preston — 1

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Captain Grant's 1754

Preston, CT

Captain Grant's 1754 at 109 CT-2A in Preston, Connecticut, was built by Captain William Grant for his wife Mercy in the village of Poquetanuck. The home sheltered Continental Army soldiers during the Revolutionary War and served as a documented station on the Underground Railroad. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has operated as a bed and breakfast since the 1980s.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Salem — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Gardner Lake

Salem, CT

In February 1895, grocer Thomas LeCount attempted to move his fully furnished house across frozen Gardner Lake in Salem, Connecticut. After moving it approximately 300 feet from shore, the ice failed overnight when mill operators drew down the lake's water level. The house broke through the ice and sank in 15 feet of water — with a stove, a sofa, and an upright piano still inside. The house structure remained visible above water for some years before eventually settling to the bottom.

$ All Ages Family: High

Shelton — 1

Outdoor / Natural Site

Indian Well State Park

Shelton, CT

Indian Well State Park occupies 153 acres along the Housatonic River in Shelton, Connecticut. The park was established in 1928 and takes its name from a Native American legend associated with the waterfall and splash pool at the site. A Housatonic Railroad line historically ran through the park corridor.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Southington — 1

White duplex on Meriden Avenue in Southington, Connecticut — the Snedeker House

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Snedeker House

Southington, CT

In 1986 the Snedeker family rented the duplex at 208 Meriden Avenue in Southington, Connecticut, a property that had previously operated as a funeral home. Family members alleged two years of paranormal activity that was investigated by Ed and Lorraine Warren, popularized by author Ray Garton's 1992 book, and adapted as the 2009 film The Haunting in Connecticut.

$ Private residence — exterior view only from public street Family: Moderate

Thomaston — 1

Theater / Performance Venue

Thomaston Opera House

Thomaston, CT

The Thomaston Opera House, built 1883 to 1885 in central Thomaston, Connecticut, occupies the upper floors of the town hall and serves as a live performance venue. The Romanesque-style structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The building reportedly stands above a former local burial ground.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Tolland — 1

Haunted House / Historic Home

Daniel Benton Homestead

Tolland, CT

The Daniel Benton Homestead is the oldest house in Tolland, Connecticut, built in 1720 by Daniel Benton on a 40-acre farm. The Cape Cod with rear ell remained in the Benton family for six generations and has operated as a historic house museum under the Tolland Historical Society since 1970.

$ All Ages Family: High

Wethersfield — 1

1761 First Church of Christ, Wethersfield

Cemetery / Burial Ground

First Church Cemetery (Ancient Burying Ground)

Wethersfield, CT

The Ancient Burying Ground in Wethersfield, Connecticut, is the second oldest burial ground in the state, established in 1638 just four years after the town's founding in 1634. Located on Marsh Street in Old Wethersfield, it has been under the jurisdiction of various governing bodies over the centuries — including the First Society (formed 1722) and the First School Society. It is one of Wethersfield's defining historic landmarks.

$ All Ages Family: High

Windham — 1

1783 colonial inn building in the Windham Center Historic District, Connecticut

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Haunted House / Historic Home

Old Windham Inn

Windham, CT

The Old Windham Inn, originally known as the Windham House, was constructed in 1783 in the Windham Center Historic District of Windham, Connecticut. It anchored the colonial village's commercial center alongside the Congregational Church and the intersection of two turnpikes. The building has been converted to apartments and is a contributing structure in the historic district.

$ All Ages Family: High

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