A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

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

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

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

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

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

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

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.

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

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

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

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

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

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

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 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.