Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

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

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

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

A school used as a model for public education across the country.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.