Places cruiserbob Wants to Go

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

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

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

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

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

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

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

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

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

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.