Places sheinsis Wants to Go

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

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

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

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

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

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

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

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

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

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

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.