The tasting room with a fire going. The bookstore that doesn't mind if you stay two hours. The museum nobody on TripAdvisor mentions. Rain on a lake is one of the better problems to have.
Orgonon, the 200-acre estate where psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich lived and worked until his death in 1957, is now a museum built around his Orgone Energy Observatory — an International Style building on the National Register of Historic Places. Three floors of his equipment, library, and paintings, plus an audio tour and Reich's own grave on the grounds. The single most unusual rainy-day stop in the region; open only in summer.
Formerly the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum, a seven-building complex a mile east of the village on Route 16 covering the region's actual economic history before tourism — crosscut saws, sleds, one of the last bateaux used on the Dead River log drives, and a forerunner of the modern skidder. The Annual Logging Festival runs live demonstrations and a logging competition; check the calendar before assuming it's running on any given weekend.