Places shanemwoods Wants to Go

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

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

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Bizarre Cavern.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

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

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

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

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

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

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

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

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

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

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

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

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The whole world in one water tank.