Places RoelV1978 Wants to Go

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

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

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

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

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

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

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

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

The whole world in one water tank.

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

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

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

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

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

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

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.