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

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

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

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

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

The Decoy Capital of the World.

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

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

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

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

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

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