Maine
Bath Iron Works is a dense industrial shipyard complex covering around 60 acres on the Kennebek River, and is the largest private employer in the state of Maine. The yard has been producing vessels for the Navy for over 100 years. Recent projects at the...
Opened in Spring 1997, the new headquarters of DeLorme Mapping Company features Eartha, the world's largest rotating globe. Eartha is over 41 feet in diameter and housed in a three-story glass atrium. It represents the Earth as it is seen from space. Every...
A 35 acre sandy "desert," within the pine forests of Maine, which has been exploited as a tourist attraction. The sandy patch appeared as a result of the topsoil being eroded away from land clearing, overgrazing, and other bad farming practices that took...
Built in 1972, this was Maine's only nuclear power plant. It was decommissioned in 1997, and was dismantled over an eight year period, at a cost of over $500 million. The reactor vessel was shipped by barge to the nuclear waste storage facility at Barnwell,...
A museum which provides information on Arctic regions, including Labrador, Baffin Island, Ellesmere Island, and Greenland, and on the exploration of these places. On the quad at Bowdoin College, and interesting array of architecture itself.
Nuclear submarine maintenance and refueling base, located on a heavily industrialized 272-acre island off Kittery, Maine, across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, NH. The base is the nation's oldest public shipyard, nearly 200 years old, and has around 4,...
Pratt Farm is a private park with numerous sculpted forms composed primarily of mounded earth and arranged rocks, all of which are overgrown and disintegrating. Around 20 distinct pieces were constructed on the 17 acre property by James Pierce, an art...
Part of a network of satellite control facilities, under operation by the Navy. Headquartered at Point Mugu, CA, the facilities include stations at Rosemount, MN, Laguna Peak, CA, and the Lincoln Laboratory in Massachusetts. The Navy, at one point, used its...
Orgonon is a place in the countryside near Rangeley, Maine, with an unusual observatory, the Orgone Energy Observatory, built in 1948 by psychologist Wilhelm Reich, who used it for research until his arrest by federal agents in 1955. Though the observatory is...