A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

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

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.