Places lunedeclaire Wants to Go

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century.

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

George Washington commissioned this centuries-old lighthouse off the coast of Maine.

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

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

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

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

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

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

Maine's only authentic torri gate celebrates a longstanding international relationship that started with the rescue of four sailors.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

This remote museum highlights the island’s impressive creative legacy.

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

This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.

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

Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

Ghostly specters are said to haunt this secluded cave where a famed Wampanoag leader spent the final days of his life.

The largest collection of works by a pioneering Black woman sculptor is on display at this Massachusetts art museum.

This sculpture is dedicated to a local therapy dog who later became the official mascot of the 126th Boston Marathon.

Solitary stone structures and a tale of tragedy are all that remains of a historic settlement built by French Protestant refugees.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stop thieves at the site of a historic 1876 bank robbery.