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This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

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

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.