Places sweetm917 Wants to Go

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

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

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

An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

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

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

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

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

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.