Places Zesra Wants to Go

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

Provincetown's night owls flock to this 52-year-old pizza joint.

Order the extra snappy, steamed hot dogs at this fourth-generation-run New England diner.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

The last sailing lobster boat in Maine is also likely New England's first zero-emissions commercial vessel.

Admire an ever-changing landscape of stone sculptures.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

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

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

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

Grapes be damned, this distillery makes wine from apples, blueberries, cranberries, and more.

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

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

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

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

See the oldest known traditional stone-ground mustard mill at work at this Down East mainstay.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

An eight-foot-long pine cone made out of 140 recycled steel shovels is an homage to Maine's state flower.

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

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