Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

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

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

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

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

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

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

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

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

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

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

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.