Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

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

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

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

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

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

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

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

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

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

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

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

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

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

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.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

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

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.