Maryland
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Arm of the Unknown Soldier: A Friendly Wave
Frederick - Its been years since we last glimpsed the Arm of the Unknown Soldier, a grisly Civil War relic displayed in a box at the long-gone Antietam Battlefield Museum in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Full story
Featured Attractions
National Museum of Dentistry
Baltimore, Maryland
Queen Victoria's dental scrapers, George Washington's teeth, exhibits on saliva and Meth Mouth.
Geppi's Entertainment Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
Comic books worth more than you will ever make in your whole life.
National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
Heroes in wax, lynching exhibit, and a slave ship.
Army Ordnance Museum
Aberdeen, Maryland
Rockets! Tanks! Bombs! The U.S. Army Ordnance Museum has 'em all, on a scale worthy of the grandest military machine on the planet.
National Vigilance Park
Fort Meade, Maryland
Invisible heroes of surveillance are remembered in this public park.
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Silver Spring, Maryland
A great medical museum. Where else can you see pieces of Abraham Lincoln's skull?
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Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Aberdeen: US Army Ordnance Museum
- Baltimore: American Visionary Art Museum [tips]
- Baltimore: Geppi's Entertainment Museum
- Baltimore: National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
- Baltimore: National Museum of Dentistry
- Baltimore: Urological Museum [tips]
- Burkittsville: Gravity Hill [tips]
- Chevy Chase: World's Largest Rubber Band Ball (former)
- College Park: Testudo the Terrapin
- Ellicott City: Enchanted Forest [tips]
- Emmitsburg: Elizabeth Seton Shrine
- Fort George G. Meade: National Cryptologic Museum [tips]
- Fort George G. Meade: National Vigilance Park
- Frostburg: God's Ark of Safety
- Havre de Grace: Desert Storm Muffler Man
- National Harbor: Awakening Giant [tips]
- Ocean City: Frontier Town [tips]
- Silver Spring: Grave of Jiggs, Little Rascals' Dog
- Silver Spring: Big Acorn [tips]
- Silver Spring: National Museum of Health and Medicine
- Sudlersville: Baseball's Forgotten Slugger [tips]
- Takoma Park: Roscoe the Rooster [tips]
- Towson: Divine's grave [tips]
- Westminster: "Rolland A. Carpet" Man [tips]
- Westminster: Nixon's Microfilm Pumpkin Patch [tips]
