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: Atomic Cannon
Aberdeen: Cal Ripken Museum
Aberdeen: Field of Tanks (formerly US Army Ordnance Museum)
Adelphi: Golden Bull
Annapolis Junction: National Cryptologic Museum
Annapolis: Hyman Rickover's Shiny Nose
Annapolis: Museum of unNatural History
Annapolis: Ptolemy Stone - The Last One
Annapolis: Windmill with Winged Pigs and Guitars
Baltimore: American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore: Boat-Shaped Restaurant
Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe House and Graves
Baltimore: Feed the Poor Parking Meter
Baltimore: Geppi's Entertainment Museum
Baltimore: Giant Fiberglass Pineapple
Baltimore: Giant RCA Dog Nipper
Baltimore: Golden Eggs - Baltimore's Anaerobic Digesters
Baltimore: Grave of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassin
Baltimore: Hug Me Sweater Tree
Baltimore: Museum of Dentistry: Washington's Choppers
Baltimore: National Great Blacks In Wax Museum
Baltimore: Phoenix Shot Tower
Baltimore: Pink Flamingo
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 - Mushroom House
Bethesda: Madonna of the Trail
Boring: Town Named Boring
Brookeville: Terrifying Brookeville Angel
Burkittsville: Spook Hill
Cambridge: American Flag and Black House
Colesville: National Capital Trolley Museum
College Park: Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson Statue
College Park: Testudo the Terrapin Monument
Colmar Manor: Dueling Grounds of Washington DC
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
Fort Washington: Giant Hammer
Frostburg: America's Oldest Road Sign
Frostburg: Noah's Ark Being Rebuilt Here
Germantown: Earthoid: Earth Globe Water Storage Tank
Germantown: The Cider Barrel - Old Road Stand
Great Mills: Redskins Spongebob Squarepants
Greenbelt: New Deal Art Deco Architecture
Hagerstown: Giant Coke Bottle
Hagerstown: Giant Rocking Chair
Havre de Grace: Decoy Museum
Havre de Grace: Desert Storm Muffler Man
Jessup: Monster Mini Golf
Kensington: Easter Island Head
Kingsville: Hoodoo Marker
La Plata: La Plata Tornado Memorial Garden
Linthicum Heights: Star Wars Toys Museum
Linthicum: William P. Didusch Urological Museum
Manchester: River Valley Ranch - Wild West Shootouts
Ocean City: Airplane Over a Cave
Ocean City: Giant Martini Glass
Ocean City: Muffler Man - Pirate
Ocean City: Ocean Gallery World Center
Ocean City: Shark Wedged in a 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, or Not
Rocky Ridge: Municipal Giant Slide - Sliding Board
Savage: World's Only Surviving Wrought Iron Bridge
Sharpsburg: Civil War Dead - Memorial Illumination
Sharptown: Logging Truck Tombstone
Silver Spring: Big Acorn
Silver Spring: Grave of a Petey, Little Rascals Dog
Silver Spring: Longest Single Span Escalator in the Western Hemisphere
Silver Spring: Memorial Bust To the Homeless Mayor
Silver Spring: National Museum of Health and Medicine
Silver Spring: Prayer Stop - Tiny Church
Snow Hill: Furnace Town
Solomons Island: Easter Island Heads At Tiki Bar
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: Giant Ear of Corn Silo
Towson: Divine's Grave
Westminster: Important Civil War Bullet Holes
Westminster: Roland A. Remnant
Westminster: Whittaker Chambers' Pumpkin Patch

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

Cockeysville: Large Chair
Ellicott City: Bagpipe Museum
Manchester: Paper Mache Cow
New Carrollton: Museum of Menstruation - Closed
Ocean City: Big Bull wearing Sunglasses and Hat
Ocean City: Five-story-high Ice Mountain - Gone
Sharpsburg: Arm of the Unknown Soldier - Closed

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