Places valadelrio Wants to Go

Near the state border, cars seem to defy the laws of physics by rolling uphill.

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

Residing quietly in suburban Maryland, this tree has a star-powered history and was grown from a seed that journeyed to space on Apollo 14.

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

Learn about our ancestral eating habits at the passion project of an archeologist.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

A state park that once served as an important river crossing, and now offers protected lands for endangered plants and animals.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

The headquarters of the Audubon Naturalist Society is a small slice of heaven for nature lovers.

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

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

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

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

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

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

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

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.

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

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