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

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

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

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

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

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

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

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

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.

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

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

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

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

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

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.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

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."

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.

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