Aardvark Antiques – Newport Rhode Island
The perfect place if you happen to be renovating a Gothic mansion or castle.
Category: Roadside Attractions
Dinosaur Footprints – Holyoke MA
There’s nothing more enticing than a giant roadside sign reading, “Dinosaur footprints!”
Shopping at Old Mystik Village – Mystic CT
So many niche stores to delight any eccentric at heart!
Swamp Meadow Covered Bridge – Foster Rhode Island
It may be young but this little heart stopper is Rhode Island’s one and only authentic covered bridge!
Stillwater Antique Mall – Greenville Rhode Island
Yet another summer has rolled around which means it’s time to go antiquing! And I don’t mean the stuffy sort of antiquing one might expect from Rhode Island. I am not in the market for a 15th century chair or some fine china I’m afraid to breathe on. I do have enough spare change for… Continue reading Stillwater Antique Mall – Greenville Rhode Island
Brown’s and Hopkin’s – The US’s Oldest Consecutively Run General Store – Chepachet Rhode Island
A quaint little stop into a long forgotten era.
Mercy Brown “Vampire” Grave – Exeter Rhode Island
New England is the place to live if you’re into horror. The reason is pretty simple – we have a long and strange history that revels in the terrifying. From our first white settlers we’ve have been a deeply superstitious bunch and this is pretty apparent in the case of Mercy Brown. Mercy Brown was… Continue reading Mercy Brown “Vampire” Grave – Exeter Rhode Island
Holy Land USA Abandoned Amusement Park – Waterbury CT
Another two hour drive to… a very strange location indeed.
Rocky Point Abandoned Amusement Park Warwick RI
After escaping the velociraptors in the Enchanted Forest we continued our adventuring to yet another abandoned amusement park in Rhode Island. This one was more familiar to my travel companion as he was here in the mid 1990’s before it was abandoned making happy childhood memories. Curranty it’s been transformed into a regular park. Most… Continue reading Rocky Point Abandoned Amusement Park Warwick RI
The Enchanted Forest Abandoned Amusement Park Hope Valley RI
Last week’s adventures had a theme – abandoned theme parks! And we started with this one which was… an adventure. It always is. It was another FaceBook suggestion which I have found to be a total coin toss when it comes to being worth it. I thought this was the place with the abandoned fairy… Continue reading The Enchanted Forest Abandoned Amusement Park Hope Valley RI