Places happygrim Wants to Go

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

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

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

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

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.

The early 20th-century home features cutting-edge technology of the day, such as ammonia refrigeration and needle showers.

A real-life hidden Easter Egg in New Hampshire's capital city

A quiet spot commemorating two naturalists who had to choose between love and the university at which they both taught.

The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.