The last sailing lobster boat in Maine is also likely New England's first zero-emissions commercial vessel.

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

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

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

Grapes be damned, this distillery makes wine from apples, blueberries, cranberries, and more.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

The former location of a platform that allowed passengers to safely wait for the trolley.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

The largest hand-carved, outdoor sculpture collection in the state of Maine.

One of the country's best automotive museums and home to one of the first motor vehicles.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

The inventor of the Coney Island hot dog rests in a grand mausoleum in Brooklyn.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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

An agricultural research library housed in a former Odd Fellows Lodge.