Nathan Hale Homestead

Roadside Americana

20,000-square-foot 1880 Victorian building with 300+ dealer spaces over four floors - the anchor of Putnam's antiques district.

Culture

32-acre park with 20 architecturally odd buildings - carriage house, windmill, chapel, blacksmith shop - on the National Register.

Roadside Americana

Connecticut's only zoo: 300+ animals including endangered Amur tigers and red wolves, plus a restored 1920s carousel.

Culture

Local history museum on Fairfield's Museum Commons/town green with rotating exhibitions, a genealogy research library, and a regular calendar of talks and walking tours.

Outdoors

1,000-acre park whose trails hit the Wolf Den (where Israel Putnam by legend shot Connecticut's last wolf), Table Rock, and Indian Chair formations.

Culture

1846 Gothic Revival mansion with an iconic pink exterior, 1850s boxwood parterre garden, and one of the nation's oldest indoor bowling alleys; seasonal tours.