Places Heather Marcello Wants to Go

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

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

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

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

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

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

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

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

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

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

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

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

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

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

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

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.