Mystic, Connecticut

One of the secrets of the Northeast has to be Mystic, Conn., and the surrounding casinos. Before we went and wasted money in the fall of 2006, we visited the Mystic Aquarium. From the outside it seemed like I was stepping back to the 1980s, but inside was pretty cool. Now, about that $100 or so I lost at Mohegan Sun ... there is not, unfortunately, any photo evidence of that.