The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

Martha's Vineyard's most beloved speakeasy sells late-night pastries.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

A major spiritual gathering place in central Maine since the mid-1800s.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

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

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

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

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

The birthplace of this Gilded Age celebrity, opera singer, suffragette, and shipwreck survivor has been turned into a museum celebrating her fascinating life.

A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.

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

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

The summer estate of John Weeks offers dazzling views and a moose captured by Theodore Roosevelt.

This site was once the largest ski jump tower in the world.

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

A mere dot on the map in the great north woods is the first place in America to vote in Presidential elections.

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

The head of a legendary lumberjack watches over a river in Maine.

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

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

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.