Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
Batsto Village
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
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Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Wilmington, Delaware
An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.
Church Creek, Maryland
The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.
Germantown, Maryland
The hidden ruins of a mill that is linked to an attempt to assassinate the vice president of the United States.
Berlin, Maryland
Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.
Lanham, Maryland
A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.
Grantsville, Maryland
This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.
Dundalk, Maryland
This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.
Lusby, Maryland
Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
Toddville, Maryland
After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Oldtown, Maryland
Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.
Laurel, Maryland
This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
Glenn Dale, Maryland
An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.
Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland
Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.
Monkton, Maryland
This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Ellicott City, Maryland
An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.