The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

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

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

The world's largest rotating world.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

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

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

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

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