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I mostly just follow my husband around. I've been to all 50 States (plus DC and Puerto Rico), South America, Africa, and most of Europe. The adventures continue...

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Places this traveler has marked as been there.

William Stowell tomb

Montpelier, Vermont

Green Mount Cemetery

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Floating Bridge of Brookfield, VT

Brookfield, Vermont

Floating Bridge of Brookfield, VT

One car at a time please.

Woodstock Town Crier

Woodstock, Vermont

Woodstock Town Crier

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

Five Elm Arches, in Woodstock, Vermont.

Woodstock, Vermont

Five Elm Arches

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

Depot 62

Manchester, Vermont

Depot 62

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

Lincoln Square

Bennington, Vermont

Lincoln Square

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Jennings Hall, a.k.a. Hill House

North Bennington, Vermont

Jennings Hall

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Pollyanna Statue

Littleton, New Hampshire

Pollyanna Statue

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

112 feet of jawbreakers, root beer barrels, gum balls....

Littleton, New Hampshire

Chutters Candy Store

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

With the shining sun

Carroll, New Hampshire

Mount Washington Hotel

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

The Summit of Mount Washington

Jackson, New Hampshire

Mount Washington

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Clark's Trading Post

Lincoln, New Hampshire

Clark's Trading Post

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Grave of Claude Rains and his wife

Moultonborough, New Hampshire

Claude Rains Grave

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

An evocation of the schooner Wyoming.

Bath, Maine

Wyoming Sculpture

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

Coin-Operated Orchestra Machine with Little Men Playing Bells
Permanently Closed

Wiscasset, Maine

Musical Wonder House

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

Floor to Ceiling

Waldoboro, Maine

Fawcett's Antique Toy and Art Museum

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

Fort Knox State Historic Site

Prospect, Maine

Fort Knox State Historic Site

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

The Alamo Theater holds extensive film archives.

Bucksport, Maine

Northeast Historic Film

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

Grave of Sarah Ware

Bucksport, Maine

Grave of Sarah Ware

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

Close-up of the cursed stain

Bucksport, Maine

Cursed Memorial of Colonel Buck

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

Penobscot Narrows Bridge

Verona Island, Maine

Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory

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

Bangor Opera House.

Bangor, Maine

Bangor Opera House

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

North to Freedom.

Brewer, Maine

Chamberlain Freedom Park

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

Mount Hope Cemetery

Bangor, Maine

Mount Hope Cemetery

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

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