Places shanemwoods Wants to Go

Decommissioned NYC subway cars are dumped into the ocean to create this underwater wildlife habitat.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

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

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

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

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

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

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

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

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

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

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

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