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

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

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

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

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

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

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

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

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

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

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

A long-forgotten Victorian swimming hole is still a fun spot for a dip.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.