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

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

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

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

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

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

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

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

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

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

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

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

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

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

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

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.