Fort Meade, Maryland
Architect of the Capitol Archival Warehouse
A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.
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Fort Meade, Maryland
A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.
Lonaconing, Maryland
A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.
Rockville, Maryland
The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.
Scotland, Maryland
This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.
Laurel, Maryland
A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.
Dundalk, Maryland
This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Toddville, Maryland
After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.
Oldtown, Maryland
Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.
Baltimore, Maryland
Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Potomac, Maryland
The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.
Glenn Dale, Maryland
An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.
Nanjemoy, Maryland
The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.
Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland
Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.
Hyattsville, Maryland
An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Ellicott City, Maryland
An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.
Wilmington, Delaware
The second oldest and longest of Delaware's three covered bridges.
Wilmington, Delaware
The smallest and oldest covered bridge in Delaware.
Wilmington, Delaware
This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.