Maine Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Maine. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports.
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Alfred: Where Old Bet the Elephant was Killed - Arundel: Maine Classic Car Museum
- Augusta: Statue of America's Little Ambassador
- Bangor: 31-Foot-Tall Paul Bunyan
- Bangor: Ask an Expert: Tim O'Brien on Quirky Maine
- Bangor: Cole Land Transportation Museum
- Bangor: Duck of Justice
- Bangor: Scroll and Shield from USS Maine
- Bangor: Stephen King Tours
- Bangor: Stephen King's House
- Bangor: VP Hannibal Hamlin's Death Couch
- Bangor: Weird Water Tower from It
- Bath: Monster of Unfathomable Pedigree
- Belfast: Perry's Nut House
- Belfast: Pink Floyd, Pink Dinosaur Skeleton
- Belfast: Rooftop Elephant
- Belgrade: Large Mosquito
- Bethel: Earth's Five Largest Moon Meteorites
- Boothbay Harbor: Captain Brown: Giant Old Salt Fisherman
- Boothbay Harbor: Trolls: Guardians of the Seeds
- Brewer: Underground Railroad Manhole
- Bridgewater: Solar System Model: Uranus
- Brunswick: The Swinging Bridge
- Brunswick: The Vision of Uncle Tom
- Bryant Pond: Three-Story Outhouse
- Bryant Pond: World's Largest Telephone
- Bucksport: Colonel Buck's Cursed Tomb
- Cape Elizabeth: 1886 Shipwreck at the Head Light
- Casco: Presidents Signpost
- Columbia Falls: Lindbergh Crate
- Columbia Falls: Wild Blueberry Land: World's Largest Blueberry
- Coopers Mills: Elmer's Barn of Junk and Dead Things
- Cushing: Langlais Sculpture Preserve
- Deer Isle: Nervous Nellie's: Where Jam is Made
- Dennysville: The Most Absurd Bar in the World: A Sculpture
- Eastport: Bear Head Rock
- Eastport: Big Fisherman and Fish
- Eastport: Nerida the Mermaid
- Eastport: Outdoor Musical Instruments
- Edgecomb: Wayward London Phone Booth
- Ellsworth: Telephone Museum
- Farmington: Birthplace of Earmuffs
- Fort Kent: America's First Mile
- Freeport: Desert of Maine
- Freeport: Giant L.L. Bean Boot
- Freeport: McDonald's in a House
- Freeport: The Big F Indian
- Fryeburg: Jockey Cap Rock, Robert Peary Monument
- Greenville: B-52 Crash Wreckage and Memorial
- Hancock: Large Fiberglass Lobster
- Hancock: Pet Sematary Movie House
- Hancock: Ray Murphy's Chainsaw Art
- Hinckley: Hemingway's Marlin and Other Oddities
- Hodgdon: Shoe Tree
- Holden: Big Cone, Vacationland Mural
- Houghton: Angel Falls
- Houlton: Boy and the Boot
- Houlton: Solar System Model: Pluto
- Jefferson: Jefferson Cattle Pound
- Kakadjo: Rare Maine Billboard
- Kenduskeag: Hand-Painted Big Coke Can
- Kennebunkport: Blowing Cave, Dolphin Tree Carving
- Kennebunkport: George and Barbara Bush Bench
- Kennebunkport: Seashore Trolley Museum
- Kennebunk: Wedding Cake House
- Kingfield: Stanley Museum: Steam Cars
- Kittery: Big Easy Chair
- Kittery: Store Decorated with Animal Heads
- Lewiston: Big Hammer and Nails
- Lewiston: Muhammad Ali Statue
- Liberty: Only Octagonal Post Office
- Lincoln: 13-Foot-Long Loon
- Lubec: Easternmost Point in the U.S.
- Lubec: Water Junk Art
- Lynchville: World Traveler Signpost
- Madawaska: Shrine to Long Distance Bikers
- Manchester: Devil's Footprint
- Monmouth: Big Farmyard Rooster
- Moscow: Retaining Wall of Birdhouses
- New Portland: Wire Suspension Bridge
- Newcastle: Historic Fish Ladder
- Orr's Island: The Cribstone Bridge
- Owl's Head: Owls Head Transportation Museum
- Peaks Island: Umbrella Cover Museum
- Pembroke: Reversing Falls
- Perry: 45th Parallel Gift Shop Globe
- Perry: Oldest Halfway North Marker
- Pittsfield: World's Largest Non-Stick Frying Pan
- Portland: Berlin Wall Slabs
- Portland: Director John Ford Statue
- Portland: International Cryptozoology Museum
- Portland: Lobsterman Statue
- Portland: Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Museum
- Portland: Slugger the Seadog
- Presque Isle: Big Milk Carton
- Presque Isle: Solar System Model: Earth
- Presque Isle: Solar System Model: Mercury
- Presque Isle: Solar System Model: The Sun
- Presque Isle: Solar System Model: Venus
- Presque Isle: Transatlantic Balloon Monument
- Prospect Harbor: Big Jim the Fisherman
- Prospect: Penobscot Narrows Bridge Observatory, Fort Knox Tunnels
- Rangeley: Wilhelm Reich Museum: Cloudbusters!
- Rockland: Big Metal Lobster
- Rockland: El Faro Memorial: Sailor Ghosts
- Rockport: Andre the Seal Statue
- Rockport: Birthplace of the Inventor of the Doughnut Hole
- Rockwood: Flying Moose Statue
- Rumford: Babe the Blue Ox
- Rumford: Muffler Man - Paul Bunyan
- Scarborough: Lenny the Chocolate Moose
- Searsport: Alexander the Dead Seagull
- Skowhegan: Langlais Sculptures: Girl With A Tail
- Skowhegan: World's Tallest Indian
- South China: World Traveler Signpost
- South Paris: Museum in a Jail
- St. George: Center of the Universe
- St. George: St. George vs. Dragon
- Stonington: Mini Village
- Thomaston: Prison Gift Shop
- Trenton: The Great Maine Lumberjack Show
- Trenton: Wentworth's Tired Iron Art
- Union: Moxie Bottle House
- Van Buren: Maine Tribute Moose
- Waldoboro: Fawcett's Antique Toy Museum
- Waldoboro: Recycleart
- Wells: Cheese Shop Shaped Like Cheese
- Wells: Johnson Hall Museum, One Man's Treasures
- Westbrook: Rudy Vallee Bronze Head
- Westbrook: Walking Man
- Wilton: Life-Size Maine Giantess
- Woolwich: Mainer C. Lobster Sculpture
- Yarmouth: Eartha: World's Largest Rotating Globe
- York Beach: York's Wild Kingdom
- York Harbor: Pleasure Ground - Tiny Figures
- York: Candlemas Massacre Memorial
- York: Confederate Yankee Statue
- York: Snowshoe Rock of Doom
- York: Wiggly Bridge
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Augusta: Tony: Big Boyz Worker Statue
- Bath: Lobstermobile
- Camden: Large Doctor's Bag
- Dover-Foxcroft: Enchanted Forest
- Ellsworth: Big Eyeglasses
- Houlton: 7 Wonders of God Creatures
- Limerick: Uncle Donald's Pig Farm
- Lisbon Falls: Moxie Museum
- Lubec: Sardine Museum
- Norway: World Traveler Signpost
- Thorndike: Doll Circus and Museum
- Union: Scrap Metal Dragons, Blue Moose
- Vassalboro: Grand View Topless Coffee Shop
