Places Artemesia Wants to Go

An antiquarian horologist’s mysterious home in Old Goucher.

This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.

A quick journey through the history of Annapolis.

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

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

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

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

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

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

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

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

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

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

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.