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The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

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

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

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

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

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

One of the country's best automotive museums and home to one of the first motor vehicles.

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

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

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

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

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

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

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

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

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

A nature and outdoor art preserve features the large-scale, abstract works of a renowned Maine folk artist.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

On Hurricane Island, a former ghost town has been transformed into a forward-thinking research center.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

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

Grapes be damned, this distillery makes wine from apples, blueberries, cranberries, and more.

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