Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

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

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

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

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

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

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

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

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

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

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

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

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

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

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.