Places patapsco1755 Wants to Go

A small park commemorates the departure of the first-ever successful transatlantic balloon voyage.

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

This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.

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

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

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

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

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

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

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

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

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

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

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

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

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

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

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.