Places hopemch Wants to Go

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

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

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

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

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

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

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

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

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

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

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

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

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

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

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

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

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.