History & Culture in Maryland

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

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

This methodist cemetery is slowly receding into the wilderness along a Maryland highway.

A rural colonial settlement that contains the remains of a store and cooper.

One of the earliest and best-preserved buildings in Charles County, Maryland.

One of the oldest standing structures in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

A historic cemetery with unique artwork, a Civil War fort, and also happens to be the site of the Battle of Bladensburg.