Maryland Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball Maryland places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Aberdeen: Army Ordnance Museum
Aberdeen: Atomic Cannon
Aberdeen: Cal Ripken Museum
Adelphi: Golden Bull
Annapolis Junction: National Cryptologic Museum
Annapolis: Hyman Rickover's Shiny Nose
Annapolis: Ptolemy Stone - The Last One
Annapolis: Windmill with Winged Pigs and Guitars
Baltimore: American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore: Boat-shaped Restaurant
Baltimore: Dr. Samuel D Harris National Museum of Dentistry
Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe House and Graves
Baltimore: Feed the Poor Parking Meter
Baltimore: Geppi's Entertainment Museum
Baltimore: Giant Fiberglass Pineapple
Baltimore: Golden Eggs - Baltimore's Anaerobic Digesters
Baltimore: National Great Blacks In Wax Museum
Baltimore: Phoenix Shot Tower
Baltimore: Pink Flamingo
Baltimore: RCA Dog Nipper
Baltimore: Safety City
Baltimore: Tattoo Museum
Baltimore: Train Safety Challenge
Baltimore: USS Torsk SS-423 Submarine
Beltsville: Castle Good Knight
Berlin: Frontier Town
Berlin: Giant fiberglass shark - As seen in "Jaws"
Bethesda: Hobbit House
Bethesda: Madonna of the Trail
Boring: Town Named Boring
Burkittsville: Gravity Hill aka Spook Hill
Cockeysville: Large Chair
College Park: Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson
College Park: Testudo the Terrapin Monument
Crisfield: King Blue - Mascot Crab
Crownsville: Muffler Man - The Fair Giant
Cumberland: Haunted 18th Century Tunnels
Cumberland: Lovers Leap
Elkton: Golden Buddha
Elkton: Tiny Church
Ellicott City: Enchanted Forest - Clark's Elioak Farm
Emmitsburg: Big Jinxed 9/11 Statue Of Flag-Raising Firefighters
Emmitsburg: Grotto of Lourdes Replica
Emmitsburg: Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Forest Glen: Decaying Forest Glen Seminary

Fort Meade: National Vigilance Park
Frostburg: America's Oldest Road Sign
Frostburg: Noah's Ark Being Rebuilt Here
Germantown: Cider Barrel
Germantown: Earth Globe Water Storage Tank
Great Mills: Redskins Spongebob Squarepants
Greenbelt: New Deal Art Deco Architecture
Havre de Grace: Decoy Museum
Havre de Grace: Desert Storm Muffler Man
Kingsville: Hoodoo Marker
Linthicum Heights: Star Wars Toys Museum
Linthicum: William P. Didusch Urological Museum
Manchester: Paper Mache Cow
Manchester: River Valley Ranch - Wild West Shootouts
Mardela Springs: Logging Truck Tombstone
Ocean City: Airplane over a cave
Ocean City: Bull wearing Sunglasses and Hat
Ocean City: Giant Martini Glass
Ocean City: Muffler Man - Pirate
Ocean City: Ocean Gallery
Ocean City: Ripley's Shark Building
Oxon Hill: "The Awakening" - Buried Giant
Port Tobacco: Legend of the Blue Dog
Rockville: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Grave
Rockville: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Rocky Ridge: Municipal Giant Slide - Sliding Board
Savage: World's Only Surviving Wrought Iron Bridge
Sharpsburg: Civil War Dead - Memorial Illumination
Silver Spring: Big Acorn
Silver Spring: Longest Single Span Escalator in the Western Hemisphere
Silver Spring: Memorial Bust To the Homeless Mayor
Silver Spring: Petey, Little Rascals Dog
Silver Spring: Prayer Stop - Tiny Church
Snow Hill: Furnace Town
St. Mary's City: Lead Coffins
Sudlersville: Monument to the "Pride of Sudlersville"
Takoma Park: Dragon Sculpture From Tree
Takoma Park: Roscoe the Rooster
Thurmont: Corn-Painted Silo
Towson: Divine's Grave
Westminster: Important Civil War Bullet Holes
Westminster: Roland A. Remnant
Westminster: Whittaker Chambers' Pumpkin Patch
Wheaton: Easter Island Head

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Annapolis: Presidential Pet Museum - Gone
Baltimore: American Dime Museum - Closed
Baltimore: Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting
Baltimore: World's Largest Trash Can - Gone
Berwyn: House Shaped like a Dog - Gone
Boonsboro: White Frog Colony - Gone
Chevy Chase: World's Largest Rubber Band Ball - 1998-2006

Clear Spring: House of Hocus Pocus - Gone
Ellicott City: Bagpipe Museum
Frederick: Giant Coke Bottle
New Carrollton: Museum of Menstruation - Closed
Ocean City: Five-story-high Ice Mountain - Gone
Sharpsburg: Arm of the Unknown Soldier - Closed

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