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.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

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

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

The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.

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

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

Inside the Bangor International Airport is a collection of military challenge coins.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.