Places NG3894 Wants to Go

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

A rural colonial settlement that contains the remains of a store and cooper.

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

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

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

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

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

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

The ruins of an 18th-century mansion that was once named "Mistake" by the man who had it built.

One of the earliest and best-preserved buildings in Charles County, Maryland.

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.