The 25 Best Roadside Attractions in Maine
Ranked by Roadtrippi users — the people who've actually been there. Updated April 2026. Roadtrippi catalogs 170 roadside attractions in Maine.
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1. Desert of Maine
Freeport, ME — ★ 5.0 (1 review)
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2. Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Museum
Portland, ME — ★ 5.0 (1 review)
Maine's unique small gauge railroads were roughly midway in size between normal trains and the tiny kind you ride at kiddie parks. Train rides offered in warmer weather months.
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3. Berlin Wall Slabs
Portland, ME — ★ 5.0 (1 review)
Another set of real Berlin Wall slabs, weathered and artfully enhanced by graffiti that no one could ever find fault with.
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4. The Swinging Bridge
Brunswick, ME — ★ 4.0 (2 reviews)
Built in 1892, fully restored in 2007. A pedestrian suspension bridge, built across the Androscoggin, that swings as you walk on it.
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5. Umbrella Cover Museum
Peaks Island, ME
The tiny, one-room museum contains over 2,000 umbrella covers. It's run by a woman named Nancy 3 Hoffman, who plays the accordion for all of her visitors.
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6. Earth's Five Largest Moon Meteorites
Bethel, ME
Plus 245 other meteorites in this museum, and thousands of mineral specimens, including the world's oldest igneous rock, 4.56 billion years old. The heaviest lunar meteorite weighs 120 pounds, making it the largest moon rock on Earth.
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7. Rudy Vallee Bronze Head
Westbrook, ME
Bronze head of the singer, wearing a bow tie, on a granite pedestal. Rudy grew up in Westbrook, and his crooning made him America's teen heartthrob in the early 1930s. The head was unveiled in 2009.
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8. Walking Man
Westbrook, ME
A 13-foot-high mechanical TV repairman sign, built in 1962 and named a National Historic Landmark in 2019. His arms still swing.
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9. Cheese Shop Shaped Like Cheese
Wells, ME
Closed. Former Maine roadside attraction in Wells.
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10. Andre the Seal Statue
Rockport, ME
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11. Doll Circus and Museum (Gone)
Thorndike, ME
Inside an antique stove company is an animated doll circus, a collection of historical musical devices, antique cars, miniature air engines, and more.
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12. George and Barbara Bush Bench
Kennebunkport, ME
Sit on a little granite bench and ponder the subdued legacy of America's 41st President.
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13. The Vision of Uncle Tom
Brunswick, ME
A plaque bolted to a church pew in 1928 marks the spot where Harriet Beecher Stowe "saw as in a vision" the death of the title character of a book she was working on -- Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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14. York's Wild Kingdom
York Beach, ME
Kiddie park and zoo. A haunted house, goats to feed, fiberglass creatures to pose with -- feels like a good mix to us.
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15. Big Metal Lobster
Rockland, ME
A large and rusty sheet metal crustacean looms over an empty lobster trap with its menacing teeth bared. Art note: real lobsters do not have visible teeth.
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16. Museum in a Jail
South Paris, ME
1822 jail with barred windows and two-foot-thick rock walls. Inside is a museum with rattlesnake rattles, jailhouse relics, and mementoes of U.S. Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, South Paris's most famous resident.
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17. Reversing Falls
Pembroke, ME
A view where the crazy Cobscook Bay tide comes in, colliding with other tides and causing water to run backward and whirlpool at Cobscook Falls. Eagles and seals make quick work of unprepared fish, though we can't promise you'll see that.
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18. Langlais Sculptures: Girl With A Tail
Skowhegan, ME
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19. Giant Paul Bunyan
Bangor, ME
31-foot statue of Paul Bunyan. Holding an axe and a peavey.
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20. Babe the Blue Ox
Rumford, ME
Paul Bunyan's sidekick Babe the Blue Ox stands next to the mighty tree-chopper.
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21. Blowing Cave, Dolphin Tree Carving
Kennebunkport, ME
Blowing Cave is a water spout attraction, where the waves at high tide roll into a rocky opening and shoot into the air. Nearby may stand a small dolphin carved from a dead tree.
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22. Uncle Donald's Pig Farm (Gone)
Limerick, ME
Volkswagen bus and plastic kiddie carts painted and decorated as a family of pigs (and one duck).
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23. World's Largest Non-Stick Frying Pan
Pittsfield, ME
Ten feet across. Brought out of storage every July and placed under a tent in a field for the Central Maine Egg Festival. Shallow, and not cast iron, so it lacks the visual allure of other giant frying pans.
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24. Snowshoe Rock of Doom
York Harbor, ME
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25. World Traveler Signpost
Norway, ME
Closed. Former Maine roadside attraction in Norway.
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