Places rubysage Wants to Go

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

An eight-foot-long pine cone made out of 140 recycled steel shovels is an homage to Maine's state flower.

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

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

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

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

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

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

Hidden among the trees at the Rangeley Lakes Trails Center are more than 20 gnomes in small wooden houses.

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

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

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

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.