Places NG3894 Wants to Go

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

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

An amazing example of Federal-period architecture, truly unique to this region of the state.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Once damaged by Hurricane Agnes, this bridge is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A state park that once served as an important river crossing, and now offers protected lands for endangered plants and animals.

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

One of the oldest standing structures in Montgomery County, Maryland.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

Built in 1815, the stabilized ruins of the grist mill and sawmill are now gated, but interpretive displays on the features and functions of the mill preserve its history.

The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.

This suburban park recalls the history of a famous tavern. Despite the name, it's no ordinary place!

A well-worn trail through thick woods in northern Montgomery County leads to an old schoolhouse.

A well-preserved quarry and six of eight continuous burning pot kilns used to make burnt lime and crushed stone are highlights of the self-guided walking tour in Fountain Rock Park.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.