Places BethWH Wants to Go

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

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

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

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

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

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

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

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

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

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

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

Located in the historic home of a newspaper publisher, this museum is dedicated to the Freedom of Speech.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

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

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

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