Baltimore, Maryland
First Public Gas Street Lamp in America
One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.
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Baltimore, Maryland
One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.
Baltimore, Maryland
Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.
Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Baltimore, Maryland
A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.
Baltimore, Maryland
A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.
Baltimore, Maryland
This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Towson, Maryland
The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.
Cockeysville, Maryland
A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.
Baltimore, Maryland
A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.
Baltimore, Maryland
The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.
Baltimore, Maryland
America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.
Baltimore, Maryland
The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.
Arbutus, Maryland
The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.
Halethorpe, Maryland
A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.
Laurel, Maryland
A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.
Lanham, Maryland
A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.