Places taylorwilliamjones Wants to Go

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

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

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

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

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

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

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

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

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

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

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

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

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

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

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

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

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