Places shullbrendand Wants to Go

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

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

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

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

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

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

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

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

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

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

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

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

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

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

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