Brunswick, Maine
Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.
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Brunswick, Maine
This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.
Bucksport, Maine
Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.
Union, Maine
They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.
Thomaston, Maine
Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.
Woodstock, Maine
A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.
Newry, Maine
A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.
Kennebunkport, Maine
The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.
Manchester, Maine
A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.
Dublin, Ireland
The house where the writer spent his formative years.
Regina, Saskatchewan
This bushy bug is one of the unsanctioned public sculptures that have survived in Regina.
New York, New York
New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.
Brockville, Ontario
Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.
Richmond, England
At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.
Vaduz, Liechtenstein
In one of the world's smallest countries, a royal's personal winery is open to the public.
Durham, North Carolina
The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.
Seoul, South Korea
Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.
Brooklyn, New York
This interactive gallery makes you feel like you've stepped into a fantasy world filled with whimsical monsters.
New York, New York
Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.
Queens, New York
A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.
Queens, New York
Serving Central Asian breads that range from cracker-crisp to warm and fluffy, this bakery brings Bukhara to Queens.
Manchester, New Hampshire
This riverfront statue honors the inventor of the first video games ever sold.
New York, New York
Here be dragons.
Bronx, New York
Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.