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

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

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

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

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

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

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

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

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

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

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

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

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

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

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

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

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