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

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

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

The fire tower along this steep, scenic hiking trail offers the best views of Maine’s Moosehead Lake.

See the oldest known traditional stone-ground mustard mill at work at this Down East mainstay.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.

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

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

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

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

A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.