Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

A tiny, picturesque island, where cows and wild horses wander around the houses.

A rustic house where intellectuals and investors tried to put an end to Cold War nuclear armament.

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

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

Train tunnel running underneath Quebec City.

The falls were named for the mistaken idea that they were the ones pictured on the Canadian $5 bill.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

An ever-changing gathering of crude wooden figures haunts the St. Lawrence River.

Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.