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Bar Harbor, Maine

Dorr Museum of Natural History

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

Bar Harbor, Maine

Reis Education Canoe

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

Sponsored by The Maine Office of Tourism

Bar Harbor, Maine

Jordan Pond Popovers

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

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Mount Desert, Maine

Bubble Rock

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

4 miles from Bar Harbor

Northeast Harbor, Maine

Asticou Azalea Garden

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

Sponsored by The Maine Office of Tourism

6 miles from Bar Harbor

Pet Sematary Filming Sites

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

8 miles from Bar Harbor

Southwest Harbor, Maine

Mount Desert Spring Blues Brothers

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

9 miles from Bar Harbor

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Bar Harbor, Maine

Jordan Pond Popovers

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