Places ophie Wants to Go

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

The whole world in one water tank.

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

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

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

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

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

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

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