Silver Spring, Maryland
National Capital Trolley Museum
A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.
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Silver Spring, Maryland
A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.
Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland
A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.
Bowie, Maryland
The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.
Baltimore, Maryland
The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Baltimore, Maryland
Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.
College Park, Maryland
The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.
Berlin, Maryland
Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.
Cambridge, Maryland
Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.
Frostburg, Maryland
The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.
Cockeysville, Maryland
Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
Baltimore, Maryland
At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.
Baltimore, Maryland
Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.
Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Rockville, Maryland
The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.
Silver Spring, Maryland
Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.
Baltimore, Maryland
This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.
Baltimore, Maryland
A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.