Bethel, Maine
Maine Mineral & Gem Museum
A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.
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Bethel, Maine
A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.
Woodstock, Maine
A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.
Bangor, Maine
This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.
Ellsworth, Maine
As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.
Ellsworth, Maine
This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.
Hancock, Maine
The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.
Brunswick, Maine
This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.
Yarmouth, Maine
The world's largest rotating world.
Portland, Maine
The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.
Ashland, Massachusetts
A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
A monument to the winner of the 1946 Boston Marathon, Greek runner Stylianos Kyriakides.
Lancaster, Massachusetts
Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.
Marlboro, Massachusetts
America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.
Princeton, Massachusetts
The haunting history of a little girl lost.
Berlin, Massachusetts
The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.
Clinton, Massachusetts
Once the largest gravity dam in the world.
West Boylston, Massachusetts
The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Hamden, Connecticut
Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.
Meriden, Connecticut
A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.
London, England
The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.
London, England
Buried for centuries, this hidden cellar is all that remains of London's medieval Whitefriars Monastery.