Places hunsicker Wants to Go

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

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

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

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

As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

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

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

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.

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

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

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

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

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

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

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

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

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

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

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

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