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34 AMAZING places to visit in Connecticut, starting with the most amazing, each one pinned on a real 3D satellite map of the state with the facts that make it worth the drive: castles, waterfalls, islands, a nuclear submarine, dinosaur tracks, beaches, lighthouses and fall foliage, plus six road trips that link all 34.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:13 #1 Gillette Castle, East Haddam
1:10 #2 Thimble Islands, Stony Creek, Branford
2:01 #3 Kent Falls
2:47 #4 Mystic
3:42 #5 Heublein Tower, Simsbury
4:35 #6 Roseland Cottage, Woodstock
5:29 #7 New Haven and Yale
6:21 #8 The Glass House, New Canaan
7:15 #9 USS Nautilus, Groton
8:10 #10 State Capitol, Hartford
9:00 #11 Sleeping Giant, Hamden
9:46 #12 Steep Rock Preserve, Washington
10:42 #13 Silver Sands
11:27 #14 Essex Steam Train
12:15 #15 Dinosaur State Park
13:03 #16 Mark Twain House
13:50 #17 Litchfield Hills
14:43 #18 Castle Craig
15:38 #19 Elizabeth Park
16:35 #20 Yale Peabody Museum
17:23 #21 Goodspeed Opera House
18:11 #22 Devil's Hopyard
19:02 #23 Harkness Memorial Park
19:49 #24 Lake Compounce
20:38 #25 Lighthouse Point Park
21:25 #26 Hammonasset Beach
22:12 #27 Hill-Stead Museum
23:02 #28 The Wadsworth
23:56 #29 Sheffield Island
24:43 #30 Stonington Borough
25:32 #31 Bear Mountain
26:17 #32 Florence Griswold Museum
27:10 #33 Maritime Aquarium
27:54 #34 Weir Farm
28:40 Road trips to see all 34
29:32 Which one would you visit first?
Sources mentioned in this video:
CT DEEP; Friends of Gillette Castle; Thimble Islands (Wikipedia, Soundings); Branford history; Wikipedia; Mystic Seaport Museum; NOAA; CT DEEP (Talcott Mountain State Park); Historic New England; WFSB; Beinecke Library (Yale); Frank Pepe Pizzeria; National Trust for Historic Preservation; Naval History and Heritage Command; State of Connecticut; CT.gov; Bushnell Park Conservancy; Sleeping Giant Park Association; Steep Rock Association; Bridgemeister; Essex Steam Train & Riverboat; CT Office of Tourism; National Park Service; The Mark Twain House & Museum; U.S. Forest Service; City of Meriden; The Cultural Landscape Foundation; NEPM; Yale Peabody Museum; Yale News; Goodspeed Musicals; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; CT DEEP (Harkness Memorial State Park); Lake Compounce; Amusement Today; LighthouseFriends; ConnecticutHistory.org; Hill-Stead Museum; The Wadsworth; Norwalk Seaport Association; Historic Stonington; National Fisherman; Willhiteweb (plaque text); Florence Griswold Museum; The Maritime Aquarium; News 12; White et al., Scientific Reports (2019). Links for every fact in SOURCES_with_links.
Photo credits (Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and Library of Congress photos under CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 and public domain; each photo is credited on screen):
Photos by Zeete, Wikipedi, Heatkernel, Purplepumpkins, minka6, John Phelan, Ragesoss, Carol M. Highsmith, Alexbarbershop, EGryk, Marty Aligata, Hallettx, drsmith7383, Pi.1415926535, Mikebeckbeck, Tichnor Brothers, Martin Lewison, Jeremy Thompson, AirportExpert, Roller Coaster Philosophy, Daderot, rickpilot 2000, Pablo Sanchez Martin, JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, RL0919, OSU Special Collections, Nathan Dimartino, terryballard, Soutrikdd, Lmatt1647, Joe Mabel, Shikai fang, It'sOnlyMakeBelieve, Magnus Bäck, Emily Hughes, Peter Lariviere, Dave Ouellette, Mark B. Schlemmer, alanlight, Morrowlong, Altoemily, annasinfinityart, Karl Thomas Moore, Jacek Z. Borkowski, wallygrom, Doug McGrady, Jllm06, acryptozoo, Flintlock1204, MikeKalasnik, Doug Kerr, Claude Monet, Rosenthal, James W., Jeff Bellinger, Kevinpepin, bellemarematt, spi516, M.M.Dwyer, Adrian Scottow, dwhartwig, Tim Taylor, Ben Pollard, Christian David, Versageek, m01229, Bob P. B., Marc Dantzker, ajay suresh, goodrob13, shinya, Ken Mist, pedrik, Lee Wright, Rusty Clark, Wolfgang Fricke, Ad Meskens, David Shankbone, Victor-ny, Vonsky87, U.S. Navy, Carlos Felipe Pardo, Lauren Manning, amanderson2, Todd Van Hoosear, VillageHero, Francisco Anzola, Nicolás Boullosa, Matthew Bellemare, Alecrr, Multituberculate15, Skye McDavid, tosh chiang, CamParnoff, Msact, MMDA-Photos, Jack E. Boucher, Historic American Buildings Survey, Unknown photographer, Hayden Soloviev, Patrick.lynch, WorldIslandInfo.com, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region, Noroton, American, Doc Searls, Mike Shaheen, Adavyd, Jaco86, Rhododendrites, Ethan Long, Geofffox, Pedro Xing, paul stumpr, Doug Butchy, Adam Jones, David Wilson, John Hoey, Ed Schipul, TrigPhotography, Bmzuckerman, Kenneth C. Zirkel, Philip Stanulis, Caravaggio, National Park Service, Ser Amantio di Nicolao.
3D maps: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2020 by EOX (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, on AWS Terrain Tiles elevation (USGS 3DEP). 3D Nautilus: a 3D model made for this video.
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