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

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

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

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

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

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

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

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

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

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

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

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

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

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

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.