Places evansrob186 Wants to Go

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

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

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

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

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

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

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

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

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

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

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

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

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.

This weeping, 10-foot-tall sculpture was a maquette for a 9/11 memorial.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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