Places lilpuddanesca Wants to Go

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

A tribute to two brothers' artistic endeavors.

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

The Decoy Capital of the World.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

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.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.