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

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

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

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

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

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

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

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

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

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

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

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

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

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

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

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

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

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

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."