Places oldhabetrot Wants to Go

Delve into the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, harbor town history, and a quiet seaside garden at this charming library.

This once-forgotten African American cultural hub was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.

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

Located in the historic home of a newspaper publisher, this museum is dedicated to the Freedom of Speech.

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

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

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

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

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

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

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

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

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

The world's largest rotating world.

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

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.