Places ashuryn Wants to Go

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.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

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

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

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

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

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

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

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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

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

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

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

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

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

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

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

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.