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This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

On Hurricane Island, a former ghost town has been transformed into a forward-thinking research center.

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

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

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

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

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

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

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

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

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

A beautiful, water-filled quarry that has become a popular haunt for swimmers and artists.

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

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

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

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

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

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

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

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