This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

A circa-1800 meeting house that once served as the social and civic heart of this small Maine town.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The life’s work of a sculptor preserved in the Maine woods.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

The world's largest rotating world.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

The Old Man of the Mountain’s less-famous, but still beloved little brother is said to resemble a leader of the Abenaki tribe.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.