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Finally made it here today (6/22/25) after 40+ years of wondering. It’s just as cool in person!

Bethel, Maine

World Traveler Signpost

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

Bartlettyarns Mill

Harmony, Maine

Bartlettyarns Mill

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

The house with a hedge around it

Bangor, Maine

Stephen King's Former House

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

Mount Hope Cemetery

Bangor, Maine

Mount Hope Cemetery

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

Sign across the street from the house

Hancock, Maine

Pet Sematary Filming Sites

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Bubble Rock

Mount Desert, Maine

Bubble Rock

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

Penobscot Narrows Bridge

Verona Island, Maine

Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

From above.

Portland, Maine

Fort Gorges

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

Gun emplacement of Battery Steele

Portland, Maine

Battery Steele

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

Old Boston trolley car.

Kennebunkport, Maine

Seashore Trolley Museum

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

St. George Reef Lighthouse prior to being decommissioned

Crescent City, California

St. George Reef Lighthouse

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Battery Point Light at high tide

Crescent City, California

Battery Point Light

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Fern Canyon at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

Orick, California

Fern Canyon

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Avenue of the Giants

Humboldt County, California

Avenue of the Giants

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A car mid-drive through the tree.

Leggett, California

Chandelier Tree

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The shiniest beach you'll ever see.

Fort Bragg, California

Glass Beach

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The Pygmy Forest.

Little River, California

Pygmy Forest Trail

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

City of 10,000 Buddhas

Ukiah, California

City of 10,000 Buddhas

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

Bourn's clubhouse and one of the fountains

Grass Valley, California

Empire Mine State Park

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

The snow sheds.

Truckee, California

Donner Pass Summit Tunnels

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Vikingsholm Castle

South Lake Tahoe, California

Vikingsholm Castle

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

American Flats
Permanently Closed

Silver City, Nevada

American Flats

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

St. Mary's Art Center.

Virginia City, Nevada

St. Mary’s Art Center

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

The new Shoe Trees as of April, 2024.

Fallon, Nevada

The Shoe Tree of Middlegate

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

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