This statue of two men in a rowboat was erected to honor those who died while fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.

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

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

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

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

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

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

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

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

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

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

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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