Whimsical cookie-themed plaques mark the birthplace of the Fig Newton.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

On Hurricane Island, a former ghost town has been transformed into a forward-thinking research center.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

A beautiful, water-filled quarry that has become a popular haunt for swimmers and artists.

For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.

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

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

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

The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.

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.

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