Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

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

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

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

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

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

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

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

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

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The whole world in one water tank.

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

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

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

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.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

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

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

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

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.