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

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

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

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

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

The whole world in one water tank.

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

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

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

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

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

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

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

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

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 local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

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