Maine

New Reports

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  Desert of Maine

  Freeport, Maine

  A former farm and now a desert, with real rolling dunes that have swallowed buildings and trees.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

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  Ray Murphy's Chainsaw Show

  Hancock, Maine

  The world's foremost chainsaw sculptor gives tour-de-force live performances in his custom-built sound-proof booth.

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  International Cryptozoology Museum

  Portland, Maine

  Bigfoot, Yeti, Nessie, the Jersey Devil, Mothman -- all of the creature superstars in one museum.

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  Eartha: World's Largest Rotating Globe

  Yarmouth, Maine

  DeLorme, still making maps (and map software). Eartha, still spinning!

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  31-Foot-Tall 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...

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  VP Hannibal Hamlin's Death Couch

  Bangor, Maine

  Abraham Lincoln's first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin, died on this couch in 1891.

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  Wild Blueberry Land: World's Largest Blueberry

  Columbia Falls, Maine

  Owners of a blueberry-themed shop and bakery went refreshingly overboard when it came to construction and decoration.

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  The Big F Indian

  Freeport, Maine

  40 feet tall, with a big feathered headdress and scary ritual facial scars. Known locally as "The Big F Indian," where the F could stand for Freeport or other F words.

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  World Traveler Signpost

  Lynchville, Maine

  A classic photo-op sign, guaranteed to wow the folks back home.

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  45th Parallel Gift Shop

  Perry, Maine

  A gift shop just south of the halfway point between the equator and the North Pole. Map-crazed visitors like to pose next to its photogenic globe.

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  Wilhelm Reich Museum: Cloudbusters!

  Rangeley, Maine

  Where inventor/psychoanalyst Reich conducted his mysterious experiments with energy-sucking "cloudbusters."

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  Birthplace of the Inventor of the Doughnut Hole

  Rockport, Maine

  Hanson Gregory invented the doughnut hole in 1847. A small plaque, erected on his birth site, honors that landmark event.

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  Lenny, the Chocolate Moose

  Scarborough, Maine

  A life-size moose, sculpted in solid chocolate -- and that's a lot of chocolate -- stands in an ice cream parlor.

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  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.

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  Moxie Bottle House

  Union, Maine

  Giant pop bottle may convince you to drink Moxie, a "nerve tonic" and delightful beverage.