Maine
Find Maine travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Trunkations
Lobster Snaps
Hancock - There’s no doubt that visiting a classic lobster shack is one of the true delights of summer. Tie on a plastic bib and let the melted butter run down your wrists... Full story
Featured Attractions
Moxie Bottle House
Union, Maine
Giant pop bottle may convince you to drink Moxie, a "nerve tonic" and delightful beverage.
Desert of Maine
Freeport, Maine
An accidentally created treeless wasteland, long promoted to tourists as a "desert."
Eartha, World's Largest Rotating Globe
Yarmouth, Maine
DeLorme, still making maps (and map software). Eartha, still spinning!
Birthplace of Paul Bunyan
Bangor, Maine
A mighty statue stands in the city where the mythical woodsman was born, or at least that's what Bangor wants us to think...
Chocolate Moose
Scarborough, Maine
A life-sized moose, sculpted in chocolate -- and that's a lot of chocolate -- stands in an ice cream parlor.
World's Tallest Indian
Skowhegan, Maine
The World's Tallest Indian towers over downtown Skowhegan -- or he used to, before the trees around him got so tall.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Bangor: Paul Bunyan Statue & Birthplace [tips]
- Bangor: Stephen King's House [tips]
- Bath: Looney Lagoon [tips]
- Belfast: Perry's Nut House [tips]
- Bridgewater: 2-story Outhouse
- Bryant Pond: 3-story Outhouse
- Bucksport: Colonel Buck's Cursed Tomb [tips]
- Canaan: Museum in a Crate
- Freeport: Big Indian [tips]
- Freeport: Desert of Maine
- Hancock: 20 ft. Lobster statue [tips]
- Houlton: Boy and the Boot
- Houlton: Solar System Model [tips]
- Island Falls: World's Largest Coffee Pot
- Lisbon Falls: Moxie World Headquarters Moxie Museum [tips]
- Lynchville: World Traveler Signpost
- Rockport: André the Seal monument
- Scarborough: Chocolate Moose
- Skowhegan: World's Tallest Indian
- Union: Moxie Bottle House
- Yarmouth: Eartha, World's Largest Rotating Globe
