Ticonderoga, NY
"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. It's five year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
North Truro, MA
In spite of quite literally everything about the surrounding environment suggesting otherwise, this is not in fact a secret government super weapon or the home of a villain about to be thwarted by a British secret agent. Yes, the building is backed by a hundred foot cliff to a desolate ocean beach on one side and by an abandoned and overgrown military complex on the other. Yes, the low shrubs and thin trees surrounding the field are twisted and tangled and filled with thorns. And yes, the near constant wind and fog means the landscape seems to be constantly changing around you. But I can assure you that the enormously foreboding dome fifty feet above the ground serves a perfectly mundane and actually quite beneficial purpose.
Greenville, Maine
A little after noon on a windy day in January of 1963 a B-52C Stratofortress strategic bomber took off from Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts. The flight was a routine training mission intended to test a new low altitude approach radar system in mountainous terrain, a technique that could provide an edge in what was then the very real possibility of a mission in Soviet air space. Two hours into the flight the team began the first of their simulated low altitude approaches over the south side of Elephant Mountain in northern Maine, and about twenty minutes later disaster struck.
Fort Kent, Maine
Two thousand three hundred and thirty nine miles away from Key West Florida is the very beginning of US Federal Highway 1. From Fort Kent Maine it is possible to drive all twenty three hundred miles south to Key West entirely on Route-1 making this the longest continuous north-south road in America.
Shelburne, VT
Shelburne Farms is a fourteen hundred acre educational working farm space on the eastern shores of Lake Champlain. Since it's establishment in 1972 the farm has provided fresh produce and dairy to the local area and educational resources to people from all over. The farmstead was built as a testbed of sustainable living and offers educational programs on everything from bovine healthcare and grain storage, all the way to solar panel installation and water recycling.