Bethel, Maine
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Bethel, Maine
Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.
Harmony, Maine
Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Bangor, Maine
The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.
Hancock, Maine
The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Verona Island, Maine
The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.
Portland, Maine
Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.
Portland, Maine
Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.
Kennebunkport, Maine
The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.
Crescent City, California
A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.
Crescent City, California
This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.
Orick, California
Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Little River, California
A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.
Ukiah, California
One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.
Grass Valley, California
The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
South Lake Tahoe, California
One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.
Silver City, Nevada
An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.
Virginia City, Nevada
A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.
Fallon, Nevada
A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.