Places mrshouligan Wants to Go

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

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

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

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

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

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

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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