The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This library is designed to commemorate the work of the Human Genome Project.

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

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

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

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A museum dedicated to Latvian history in the heart of Maryland.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

An unusual sculpture, an interesting history, in a strange place, for a good cause.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

This is the last surviving Bollman truss bridge in the world.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

An amazing example of Federal-period architecture, truly unique to this region of the state.

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

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

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

The final resting place of a physician rescued during the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

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