Places Artemesia Wants to Go

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

These vibrant row houses are a unique example of Baltimore kitsch.

At the birthplace of American railroading, a world-class collection of historic trains.

The only public swimming pool in Baltimore open to Black Americans during segregation is now a permanent memorial art exhibit.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

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

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

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

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

The site of the Andover Witch Hunts, which ended with more witch accusations and arrests than Salem.