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This Harriet Tubman mural went viral for kids interacting with it.

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

A charming tour of the umbrella, tin-can, and drinking-straw capital of the world.

Take a trip to the past aboard a 1920s railcar or open flatcar for a scenic ride through Maryland farm country.

This heritage museum highlights the importance of the dairy cow as a vital part of rural Maryland's past, present, and future.

A quick journey through the history of Annapolis.

This general store has stood in the same spot for well over a century.

Once damaged by Hurricane Agnes, this bridge is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

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.

This building at the south end of the boardwalk was once home to the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the U.S. Coast Guard before being rescued itself.

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

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

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

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

Its diverse collection of computers and technology spans the ages.

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.

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