Baltimore, Maryland
The Book Thing
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Boonsboro, Maryland
Bizarre Cavern.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Baltimore, Maryland
It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Bar Harbor, Maine
A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.
Poland, Maine
This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.
Brunswick, Maine
This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.
Union, Maine
They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.
Thomaston, Maine
Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.
Kennebunk, Maine
The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.
Ellsworth, Maine
As communication goes completely wireless, this Maine museum remembers all the wires that got us to this point.
Jonesport, Maine
The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.
Portland, Maine
The world's only and thus largest collection of its kind celebrates everyday wonder through simple umbrella sheaths.
Fairfield, Maine
This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.
Harmony, Maine
Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."
Bangor, Maine
This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.
Deer Isle, Maine
Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.
York, Maine
New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.
Kennebunkport, Maine
The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.