5 Places In Maine Where You Can Find ‘The World’s Largest’ Things

The next time you're looking for something fun to do, plan a road trip to check out one of Maine's many "World's Largest" spots.

Here are 5 places in Maine where you can find 'The World's Largest' things.

1.) World's Largest Non-Stick Frying Pan, Pittsfield

According to the Pittsfield Historical Society, the townsfolk of Pittsfield got together in 1973 and tried to come up with a way to get people excited about the end of summer. Looking around at what the town had to offer, a whole lotta eggs (as a great deal of the are was made up of egg farms) the "Central Maine Egg Festival" was born. To cook up a lot of eggs for said festival, organizers hatched an idea to commission a big ole frying pan, and a 10 foot, 300 pound pan was created and brought to the Center of Mason Park in Pittsfield. Coated with non-stick Teflon, thanks to the Dupont company, the World's Largest non-stick Frying Pan is brought out each year, during the festival, to cook up dozens of eggs in celebration. Outfitted with custom gas burners, created back in 1973, by the local gas company Maine Gas, you can only catch a glimpse of this big bad boy during the festival in July.

2.) World's Largest Blueberry Dome, Colombia Falls

Folks visiting Downeast Maine from June to October can get an up-close-and-personal look at one of the World's Largest Blueberry Domes at Wild Blueberry Land in Colombia Falls. Built in 2001 by Dell and Marie Emerson, it celebrates their life's dedication to one of Maine's most beloved exports.

"Our lives have revolved around the blueberry industry. Dell is the farmer’s farmer, having worked at the University of Maine for 53 years on the only Wild Blueberry research farm in the U.S. Marie, a certified and award-winning chef, has taught in the Maine Community College System for 30 years. With a dedication to saving small farms and preserving the environment, we built Wild Blueberry Land in 2001. It stands as an homage for value-added products and the future success of small-family farming."

3.) World's Largest Bean Boot, Freeport

Right in the center of the retail mecca of Maine, Freeport, stands the World's Largest Hunting Boot, an L.L. Bean Boot.

According to the World Record Academy, this giant boot stands 16.5 ft. tall and is 7.5 ft. wide, and is made of painted wood and steel supports.

"Freeport, Maine, United States--The L.L. Bean Freeport flagship store is one of four L.L. Bean stores in Freeport, Maine, United States, complete with a size 410, 16.5-foot tall all-weather Bean boot for a mascot; the huge boot permanently placed outside sets the world record for being the World's Largest Hunting Boot..."

The boot was designed in 1911, by L.L.Bean founder, Leon Leonwood Bean, who wanted to design the perfect Maine hunting boot that could withstand the boggy Maine terrain. The rubber-bottomed leather-topped boot has become an iconic symbol of the great Maine outdoors. Aside from the stationary boot in Freeport, there are a couple of boot-mobiles riding around the U.S. and even one that's overseas.

4.) World's Largest Telephone, Bryant Pond

You want to really astound your kids, plan a trip to show them the World's largest telephone in Bryant Pond and then watch their gears start to spin when they attempt to figure out how to use it, without any buttons available to them!

According to the World Record Academy, the statue was created to pay tribute to how phone calls used to be placed, before the push button and even cell phones.

"The crank system goes back to the beginning of telephones, when a third person — a switchboard operator — always came between you and your call. It was easy: pick up the heavy Bakelite receiver, crank the handle, and tell the operator who you want to talk to...In 1983 the last hand-cranked phone system in the United States stopped cranking, and all 431 customers of the Bryant Pond Telephone Company woke up to boring direct-dial. In the center of town there is a giant telephone in honor of that fateful day."

5.) World's Largest Rotating Globe, Yarmouth

It only makes sense that the World's Largest Rotating Globe would reside inside lobby of a Maine-based mapping company, DeLorme, in Yarmouth.

Built in 1998, roadsideamerica.com says the big globe is even spinning along the same axis and angle as the real Earth.

"Then-CEO David DeLorme wanted something big to flag his company in the physical world -- so he designed the World's Largest Revolving and Rotating Globe.
Eartha took two years to build.A year later, officials from Guinness World Records ran a tape measure over DeLorme's creation. Eartha, they learned, was
just under 131 feet around, and 41 feet, one-and-a-half inches across her middle (DeLorme had guessed 42 feet)."

Check it out!

Honorable Mention: Largest 3D Scale Model of the Solar System In The Western Hemisphere, Presque Isle

This may not be on the "World's Largest" list, but it is impressive in it's own right, and it is the biggest of it's kind in this neck of the woods.

I would recommend planning the trip "up to The County" in the fall time, because the foliage is gorgeous makes for a spectacular backdrop to this celestial scavenger hunt of sorts. Running the length of 100 miles along Route One, the University of Maine Presque Isle's 3-D scale model of the solar system is set up in different station along the trek. At each stop, there's an informational plaque that give you some details or what you're looking at. It's a great little learning adventure to check out every spot.