Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Maryland

While in Maryland, you might enjoy a visit to:

Rockets! Tanks! Bombs! The U.S. Army Ordnance Museum has 'em all, on a scale worthy of the grandest military machine on the planet.

Service station owner painted camouflage fatigues onto his auto service center's muffler man back in 1991, as a show of support to US troops in the Persian Gulf.

The Madonna of the Trail statue is one of twelve 18-foot tall tributes to the pioneer women who traveled west with their crazy husbands. [Dec 2005 - Reported temporarily removed for construction.]

"God's Ark of Safety," a full-sized version of Noah's Ark, has been under construction for 30 years by a local church.

Have someone take your picture in front of the proudly-labeled Boring post office or Boring Methodist church.

The free-ranging mascot of Takoma Park was run over by an SUV, but now lives forever in bronze.

Frederick Douglass and Sojurner Truth are here, of course, but so are wax versions of America's three black astronauts and the first black to shoot a polar bear.

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