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

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

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

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

Surrounded by traditional homes, this Tolkien-esque dwelling stands out on a quiet street in suburban Maryland.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

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

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

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

The whole world in one water tank.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

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

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

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