Westminster Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

The 18th- and 19th- century cemetery opens through an Egyptian influenced iron entrance gate designed by Maximilien Godefroy. A great number of famous Marylanders are interred here, including many Revolutionary patriots and veterans of the War of 1812. Within the ...

Bolton Hill Historic District

The Bolton Hill Historic District is a residential neighborhood with 20 blocks of relatively unaltered buildings dating from the second half of the 19th century. Although the area was originally open farmland, northward development from the city and the construction ...

Old Pine Street Station

The Old Pine Street Station, or Western District Police Station was built between 1877 and 1878. Designed by Francis E. Davis, it is an elaborately decorated, High Victorian Gothic building. The Baltimore Police Department constructed the building to improve working ...

Baltimore and Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station

The National Historic Landmark Baltimore & Ohio Transportation Museum and Mount Clare Station is a collection of three interrelated buildings standing on the oldest railroad terminal site in the country. The fledgling Baltimore & Ohio Railroad established its headquarters at ...

Franklin Square Historic District

In 1839, James and Samuel Canby of Wilmington, Delaware, donated a two-and-one-half acre park to the city for $10,000. The city agreed to widen the surrounding streets and landscape this park, later named Franklin Square. It was common in the ...

Union Square - Hollins Market Historic District

Begun during the influx of English, Irish and German immigration of the 1830s, the Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District is a dense area of rowhouses that includes Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles. To the west, Union Square Park ...

St. Augustine Pirate and Treasure Museum

For history buffs, there is a circa 1710 blunderbuss. For popular culture fans, there's Jack Sparrow's sword.

At the Pirate Museum in downtown St. Augustine, you can stand on the deck of a replicated pirate ship, light a reproduction of ...

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

Fort McHenry is forever associated with Francis Scott Key's composition of "The Star Spangled Banner." Built as part of the East Coast defense system, Fort McHenry replaced Fort Whetstone. During the War of 1812, the British moved north to invade ...

Angell and Phelps Chocolate Factory

Angell & Phelps Chocolate Factory shows off its inner workings for 500 to 1,000 visitors a day. Try the dark chocolate-covered potato chip.

"Would you like to try our chocolate?"

The offer comes from a beaming, apron-wearing woman greeting customers ...

National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum

The elite commandos honored at the museum in Fort Pierce took out Osama Bin Laden this year. Seventeen of them also died in a single strike in Afghanistan.

Inside the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce is an unassuming, glass-topped ...