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The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Delve into the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, harbor town history, and a quiet seaside garden at this charming library.

A major spiritual gathering place in central Maine since the mid-1800s.

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.

This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.

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

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

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

A beautiful, water-filled quarry that has become a popular haunt for swimmers and artists.

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

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.