Places varmicon Wants to Go

This general store has stood in the same spot for well over a century.

A suburban museum tells the story of a historic transportation network and even provides rides in antique trolley cars.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

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

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

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.”

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.

A charming tour of the umbrella, tin-can, and drinking-straw capital of the world.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

At the birthplace of American railroading, a world-class collection of historic trains.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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