This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.

The only public swimming pool in Baltimore open to Black Americans during segregation is now a permanent memorial art exhibit.

This grove was planted more than a century ago by the War Mothers of World War I.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.