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An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

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

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

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

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

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

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.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

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

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

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

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.