Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

A tribute to the beloved, kind-hearted "homeless mayor" of Silver Spring.

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

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Washington's top-secret Cold War-era doomsday communications tower is located in a small neighborhood park.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

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

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.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

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