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.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

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

Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."

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

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

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

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

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

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

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

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

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.