Places chrissyml Wants to Go

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

A tribute to the hard-working men and women of Grumman, who crafted F-14 fighter jets.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

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

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

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

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

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

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