Places chrissyml Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

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

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

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

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

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.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

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