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Portland Head Light & Museum

Just a 10-minute drive from downtown Portland is this 1794 lighthouse, easily one of the most pictur... More
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Casco Bay Lines

Six Casco Bay islands have year-round populations and are served by ferries from downtown Portland. ... More
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Eagle Island Tours

Eagle Island was the summer home of Arctic explorer and Portland native Robert E. Peary, who claimed... More
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Portland Sea Dogs

A Double-A team affiliated with the Boston Red Sox (a perfect marriage in baseball-crazy northern Ne... More
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Victoria Mansion

Widely regarded as one of the most elaborate brownstones ever built in the U.S., this mansion (also ... More
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Children's Museum of Maine

The centerpiece exhibit here is the camera obscura, a room-size "camera" on the top floor of this st... More
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Portland Public Market

The Portland Public Market opened in 1998 and features over two dozen vendors of fresh foods and flo... More
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Portland Museum of Art

This bold, modern museum, designed by I. M. Pei & Partners in 1983, features selections from its ow... More
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Old Port Mariner Fleet

The Indian II offers deep-sea fishing trips far beyond Portland Harbor in search of cod, cusk, hake,... More
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Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum

In the late 19th century, Maine was home to several narrow-gauge railways, operating on rails 2 feet... More
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Wadsworth-Longfellow House & Center for Maine History

The Maine Historical Society's "history campus" on Congress Street includes the austere brick Wadswo... More
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Frommer's content excerpted from Frommer's Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, 5th Edition, Wiley Publishing, Inc.