Take home some of the mouthwatering cuisine served daily at the Publick House Historic Inn by visiting the famous Bake Shoppe. (You’ll recognize it by the heavenly scent of home-baked goods that wafts out the door.) There’s a selection of sweet treats, decadent desserts, relishes and jams, and baked-fresh-daily breads, pies and cakes. Take home bread pudding, old-fashioned raspberry-filled cookies, apple butter, strawberry rhubarb jam or the inn’s famous to-die-for pecan sweet rolls. In the to-go refrigerator, you’ll find comfort food items including chicken pot pies, cornbread sausage stuffing, butternut bisque, mini lobster cobblers and crab and tomato dip. You’ll also want to browse the collection of New England cookbooks and gifts that celebrate the historic inn and this vibrant region of the country.

There’s no excuse to leave The Dinosaur Place at Nature’s Art Village without a treasure! And there are so many shops to choose from for those take-home treasures — from the tiny handmade dishes at the Artful Gift Shop to the real dinosaur bones and shark’s teeth at the Ancient Fossil Shop and natural gemstone beads at the Absolute Bead Shop. Take home a glittering crystal tree or cathedral, a bejeweled trinket box, a colorful dreamcatcher. Check out the plush animals and science toys at the Ageless Toy Shop. Or, visit the Geode Center, pick your own geode and see what’s revealed when it’s sliced in half. Over at The Past Antiques Market & Museum, over 90 dealers offer two floors worth of antiques, collectibles and crafts.