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Top Rated Attractions

  • National Great Blacks In Wax Museum

    National Great Blacks In Wax Museum

    Baltimore, Maryland

    Greatness and sorrow, waxy heroes and a Slave Ship, all in one museum.

  • National Museum of Health and Medicine

    National Museum of Health and Medicine

    Silver Spring, Maryland

    A great medical museum. Where else can you see pieces of Abraham Lincoln's skull?

  • Doug Bast's House of History

    Doug Bast's House of History

    Boonsboro, Maryland

    Historical museum displays a real human arm with lodged bullet, and a bullet carved to resemble Abe Lincoln, among other odd exhibits.

  • National Museum of Civil War Medicine

    National Museum of Civil War Medicine

    Frederick, Maryland

    This museum has much to recommend, including amputations, embalming, a mummified human arm, and ghosts.

  • Vanadu Art House

    Vanadu Art House

    Hyattsville, Maryland

    Retired museum art conservator A. Clarke Bedford spent years covering his house and cars with visually mesmerizing junk.

  • National Cryptologic Museum

    National Cryptologic Museum

    Annapolis Junction, Maryland

    Provides a "peek behind the curtain" at the world of ciphers and code-breaking, courtesy of the super-secret NSA.

  • American Visionary Art Museum

    American Visionary Art Museum

    Baltimore, Maryland

    For those who don't want to leave the comforts of urban life to see the kind of art that crazy, loner farmers make in the outlands.

  • Museum of Dentistry: Washington's Choppers

    Museum of Dentistry: Washington's Choppers

    Baltimore, Maryland

    Queen Victoria's dental scrapers, George Washington's teeth, an exhibit on saliva, and a tooth jukebox.

  • Testudo the Diamondback Terrapin

    Testudo the Diamondback Terrapin

    College Park, Maryland

    Bronze sculpture of the University of Maryland's feisty reptile mascot, well-rubbed by luck-seeking students before exams.

  • Memorial Bust To the Homeless Mayor

    Memorial Bust To the Homeless Mayor

    Silver Spring, Maryland

    Norman Lane, a homeless man, became known as the "Mayor of Silver Spring." His favorite slogan is inscribed on the base of his bronze bust: "Don't Worry About It."

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