It looks like a whale swallowed a house.

Boston University’s Wroe Wolfe called Daggett Rock “one of the largest glacial-transported boulders on the earth” and figured it was part of the Saddleback Mountain range seven miles away.

At 100 feet long, 55 feet wide and 31 visible feet tall, “it’s supposedly the biggest boulder, I’ve been told, in the eastern United States,” said Dennis Atkinson, president of the Phillips Historical Society.

It’s gone by different names: among them, Big Rock and Cleft Rock (there’s a crack wide enough to walk through). Daggett Rock stuck after the Daggett family bought the property. In the 1970s, ownership passed to the historical society for preservation.

Located off Route 142 between Salem and Phillips, a road sign still points the way.

“Some of the (old) postcards had it in Strong,” Atkinson said. “It’s not like the big rock moved; they had the wrong town.”

Greenwood Ice Caves

They’re not caves in the traditional sense. And they don’t hold ice year-round, despite any lore. And in the 1950s, for Blaine Mills, they were kind of a pain in the neck.

Mills’ father owned a Texaco station on Route 26, and on the old Texaco highway maps was an icon for the Greenwood Ice Caves. Not mentioned on the map: that you had to take an abandoned, barely-there logging road to get to the caves.

“We had a lot of people come and ask about them. Half of them would come back and need to be towed,” said Mills, vice president of the Greenwood Historical Society.

In the ’60s, when a Texaco rep swung by the station, Mills asked, “Why don’t you do us a favor and take those ice caves off the maps?”

He did.

In the 1800s, when the caves were more accessible, Mills said families used to horse and buggy up and picnic. Part of a cave-in on one side of Long Mountain, some parts of the ice caves are tall enough to stand in, some require crawling, and a wrong step will land you in trouble quick.

Somes Sound, Acadia National Park

Once billed as the only fjord on the eastern U.S. seaboard, that distinction isn’t touted by Acadia National Park anymore.

“The last few years there’s been some controversy, so we call it ‘fjord-like,'” said park naturalist Wanda Moran.

Seven miles long and 152 feet deep at the deepest part, Somes Sound meets some of the criteria for a fjord, including scenery more associated with Scandinavia.

“What a fjord is defined as is a u-shaped valley carved by glacier,” Moran said.

The Maine Geological Survey points out one hitch: Sediment is oxygenated at the bottom of Somes Sound, unlike the bottom of much deeper “true” fjords. Less stringent criteria, the state said, may make it a fjard, “a glacially carved embayment that is drowned by the sea.”

The best views of the fjord, fjord-like or fjard known as Somes Sound come from Acadia’s Sargent Drive, according to the park.

– Kathryn Skelton