Places megamaam Wants to Go

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

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

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

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

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

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

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

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

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

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

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

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

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

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

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.