Portland, Maine
Fort Gorges
Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.
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Portland, Maine
Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.
St George, Maine
A beautiful, water-filled quarry that has become a popular haunt for swimmers and artists.
Bucksport, Maine
Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.
Perry, Maine
A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.
Union, Maine
They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.
Houlton, Maine
This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.
Scarborough, Maine
This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.
Greenville, Maine
The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.
Boothbay, Maine
A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.
Northwest Piscataquis, Maine
Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.
Harmony, Maine
Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."
Fort Kent, Maine
A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.
Woodstock, Maine
A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.
Rangeley, Maine
Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.
Thomaston, Maine
Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.
Bangor, Maine
The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.
Newry, Maine
A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.
Kittery, Maine
Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.
Eastport, Maine
The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.
Unity, Maine
After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.
Bethel, Maine
Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Manchester, Maine
A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.
Kennebunkport, Maine
The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.