Places ophie Wants to Go

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

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

An agricultural research library housed in a former Odd Fellows Lodge.

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

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

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

On Hurricane Island, a former ghost town has been transformed into a forward-thinking research center.

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

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

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

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

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

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

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

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.