Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

A small park commemorates the departure of the first-ever successful transatlantic balloon voyage.

An agricultural research library housed in a former Odd Fellows Lodge.

The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

One of the country's best automotive museums and home to one of the first motor vehicles.

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

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

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

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

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

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

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

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

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

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