Waldorf, Maryland
Dr. Samuel Mudd House Museum
Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.
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Waldorf, Maryland
Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.
College Park, Maryland
The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.
Kensington, Maryland
The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.
Fort Washington, Maryland
A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.
Baltimore, Maryland
America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Ellicott City, Maryland
An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.
Poolesville, Maryland
This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.
Cockeysville, Maryland
Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.
Lanham, Maryland
A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.
Cambridge, Maryland
This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.
Big Pool, Maryland
A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
Fort Washington, Maryland
This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.
Baltimore, Maryland
The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.
Thurmont, Maryland
A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Scotland, Maryland
This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Baltimore, Maryland
An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.
Baltimore, Maryland
Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.
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.