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Strange Museums

International Cryptozoology Museum

Bangor, Maine

Bigfoot casts, alleged Yeti droppings, monster replicas, strange hair samples, and a full-size coelacanth make Bangor home to an entire museum devoted to creatures that may…

Giant Objects

Paul Bunyan Statue

Bangor, Maine

Bangor's enormous plaid lumberjack weighs about 3,700 pounds, towers 31 feet above Main Street, and stands over a time capsule scheduled to remain sealed until 2084.

Roadside Attractions

Perry’s Nut House

Belfast, Maine

Since 1927, Perry's Nut House has mixed candy and souvenirs with a stuffed gorilla, giant hides, trick mirrors, vintage roadside spectacle, and something advertised simply as…

Roadside Attractions

Maine Solar System Model

Presque Isle, Maine

Northern Maine turns U.S. Route 1 into a nearly 160-mile model of the solar system, with planets and dwarf planets scattered along the highway at a…

Strange Museums

Wilhelm Reich Museum

Rangeley, Maine

Deep in western Maine, Wilhelm Reich's former laboratory preserves orgone energy accumulators, atmospheric experiments, and the story of a machine he believed could influence the weather.

Natural Oddities

Bubble Rock

Mount Desert, Maine

A glacier carried an enormous chunk of granite roughly 30 miles and dropped it near the edge of South Bubble, where it still looks one hard…

Giant Objects

Eartha

Yarmouth, Maine

A three-story glass atrium in Yarmouth contains a 41-foot globe weighing about 5,600 pounds that slowly rotates and revolves like an indoor mechanical planet.

Natural Oddities

Old Sow Whirlpool

Eastport, Maine

Powerful tides off Eastport can twist into a whirlpool more than 250 feet across, complete with smaller surrounding vortices known appropriately as piglets.

Strange Museums

Umbrella Cover Museum

Peaks Island, Maine

A tiny island museum turned the disposable sleeve from an umbrella into a collection, a world record, a guided show, and an excuse to play accordion.

Natural Oddities

Desert of Maine

Freeport, Maine

A failed farm in famously green Maine exposed a huge deposit of glacial sand, leaving dunes where fields, sheep, and crops once occupied the landscape.