Places NationalParkGeeks Wants to Go

An eight-foot-long pine cone made out of 140 recycled steel shovels is an homage to Maine's state flower.

The only museum in the world dedicated to the global, historic, and modern art of beadwork.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

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

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

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

It's a repurposed treasure trove of history, located just an hour away from Acadia National Park.

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

Admire an ever-changing landscape of stone sculptures.

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

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

This high-octane event honors Maine’s legacy as the birthplace of logging in the U.S.

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.

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

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

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

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.

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

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

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

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Bronze frogs link the town’s hidden waterways with the people who shaped it.