Maine

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Image of Smuttynose Island located in Maine, US | Smuttynose Island. (Wikimedia Commons)
Maine, US

Smuttynose Island

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873

Six miles off the coast of New Hampshire, but actually belonging to the state of Maine, Smuttynose Island is one of the Isles of Shoals. Named by fishermen who thought all of the seaweed that... »

Memento Mori, Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by John Pittman, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others

Image of The Wilhelm Reich Museum located in Maine, US
Maine, US

The Wilhelm Reich Museum

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich was an esteemed psychoanalyst who studied with Freud in the 1920s. He influenced many writers, such as Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer, as well as the famed psychotherapist Fritz Perls... »

Strange Science, Medical Museums | Edited by John Pittman, M Rebekah Otto and others

Image of Eagle Lake Tramway located in Maine, US
Maine, US

Eagle Lake Tramway

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods

If you were to stumble on the tracks, or rusted iron wrecks it would certainty be a mystery. But this railway running straight through the forest of Maine, are remnants of a once genius system.... »

Inspired Inventions, Incredible Ruins | Edited by John Pittman and M Rebekah Otto

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