The Vanilla Bean Cafe

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

1755 birthplace-farm of Connecticut's state hero, maintained by Connecticut Landmarks; seasonal tours May-Oct.