A rare venue to buy specialty maps.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A quirky museum paying tribute to the history of the optical industry.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

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

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

Explore the odd assortment of items that have washed up on the beaches of Plum Island.

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

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

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

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

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

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

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

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.