Places GamokaJoe Wants to Go

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

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

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

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A beautiful, water-filled quarry that has become a popular haunt for swimmers and artists.

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

Hidden among the trees at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center are more than 20 gnomes in small wooden houses.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

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

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

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

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.