Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

This massive swimming pool is the high tech home to the human-powered submarine races.

An unusual sculpture, an interesting history, in a strange place, for a good cause.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

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

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

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

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.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

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

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

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

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

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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