Places sheinsis Wants to Go

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

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

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

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

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

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

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

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

The world's largest rotating world.

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

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.