Mon-Sat 9a-4p

Yale University, founded in 1701, is a private Ivy League research university and the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Take an hour-long, student-guided tour of Yale’s tree-lined campus to learn about its history and architecture. Registration required. You may also explore the campus without joining a tour.

FREE Admission | Fri 10a-5p, Sat-Sun 11a-5p

Founded in 1832, the Gallery is the oldest university art museum in America. The Gallery’s collection includes 300,000+ objects, ranging in date from antiquity to the present day, with an emphasis on early Italian Renaissance painting, African sculpture, and modern art. Featured artists include Alexander Calder, Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, and John Singer Sargent.

FREE Admission | Fri-Sat 10a-5p, Sun 12p-5p

The Museum, best known for the Great Hall of Dinosaurs, also has permanent exhibits dedicated to human and mammal evolution; wildlife dioramas; Egyptian artifacts; local birds and minerals; and Native Americans of Connecticut.

FREE Admission | Thu-Sat 10a-5p, Sun 11a-5p

The newly-renovated Yale Center for British Art houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, encompassing works from the fifteenth century to the present in a range of media.

Admission: $5 | Mon-Sun 10a-5p

15-minute drive from downtown New Haven

See the largest, most comprehensive collection of PEZ memorabilia on public display in the world, the world's largest PEZ dispenser, a viewing area into the PEZ production area, a PEZ trivia game, retail store, interactive historical timeline, and more.

Admission: $12

15-minute drive from downtown New Haven

The museum features exhibits on trolley history in the visitors' center and offers rides on restored historic trolleys along its 1.5-mile track of the Branford Electric Railway, the oldest continuously operated suburban trolley line in the United States. The railway, museum, and collection are recognized as a National Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places.

New Haven-style pizza -- known as "apizza" (pronounced "ah-BEETS") -- is a coal-fired, thin-crusted, often oblong-shaped Neapolitan-style pie with a chewy texture and charred edges. Italian immigrants, particularly from Naples, brought their pizza-making skills to New Haven in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, founded in 1925 (now celebrating its 100th anniversary) is credited as the original coal-fired pizza in New Haven. Apizza is now served in many other pizzerias in the area, most notably Sally's Apizza and Modern Apizza.

See what CBS Saturday Morning and Food & Wine have to say about New Haven-style Pizza.

Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana

157 Wooster St, New Haven, CT 06511

(203) 865-5762

Sally's Apizza

237 Wooster St, New Haven, CT 06511

(203) 624-5271

Modern Apizza

874 State St, New Haven, CT 06511

(203) 776-5306

Established in 1895, this no-frills restaurant is recognized by the Library of Congress as the “Birthplace of the Hamburger Sandwich.” Their classic burger includes a proprietary blend of five cuts of meat, ground fresh daily, served on white toast with only cheese, onion, and tomato – no substitutions.

BAR

254 Crown St, New Haven, CT 06511

Buzzing bar & dance club with an industrial-chic interior. Brick oven pizza & craft beer in the Front Room, dancing in the Back Room (Live DJ Fri-Sat 10p-1:30a, cover after 9:30p). Gay-friendly / ALL are welcome.

Partners Bar & Nightclub

365 Crown St, New Haven, CT 06511

Serving since 1974 with a rotating schedule of theme nights, dance floor, drag shows, video bar, etc. Opens at 8pm nightly.

168 York Street Café

168 York St, New Haven, CT 06510

Laid-back gay bar & American eatery in the basement of a townhouse, featuring theme nights & brunch.