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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.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
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
Silver Spring, Maryland
A great medical museum. Where else can you see pieces of Abraham Lincoln's skull?
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
Frederick, Maryland
This museum has much to recommend, including amputations, embalming, a mummified human arm, and ghosts.
Vanadu Art House
Hyattsville, Maryland
Retired museum art conservator A. Clarke Bedford spent years covering his house and cars with visually mesmerizing junk.
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
Baltimore, Maryland
Queen Victoria's dental scrapers, George Washington's teeth, an exhibit on saliva, and a tooth jukebox.
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
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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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
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- Annapolis: Surfin' Submarine Centennial Statue
- Annapolis: Museum of unNatural History [tips]
- Annapolis: John Paul Jones Crypt [tips]
- Annapolis Junction: National Cryptologic Museum
- Baltimore: American Visionary Art Museum
- Baltimore: National Great Blacks In Wax Museum
- Baltimore: Phoenix Shot Tower [tips]
- Baltimore: Museum of Dentistry: Washington's Choppers
- Baltimore: Safety City [tips]
- Baltimore: Golden Eggs - Baltimore's Anaerobic Digesters [tips]
- Baltimore: Bust of Frank Zappa on a Pole [tips]
- Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe's Two Graves [tips]
- Baltimore: Feed the Poor Parking Meter [tips]
- Baltimore: Giant RCA Dog Nipper [tips]
- Baltimore: Train Safety Challenge [tips]
- Baltimore: USS Torsk SS-423 Submarine [tips]
- Baltimore: Boat-Shaped Restaurant [tips]
- Baltimore: Grave of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassin
- Baltimore: Baltimore's Washington Monument
- Baltimore: Inventor's Ouija Board Tombstone [tips]
- Baltimore: Full-Size Easter Island Head [tips]
- Baltimore: Papermoon Diner: Crazy Art Eatery [tips]
- Baltimore: The Pagoda [tips]
- Baltimore: Bromo Seltzer Arts Clock Tower [tips]
- Baltimore: Where Poe Had His Last Drink [tips]
- Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe's House [tips]
- Baltimore: Poe Contemplates Shoe
- Baltimore: Oldest Streetlight in America
- Berlin: Frontier Town [tips]
- Berlin: Cowboy with Ice Cream Cone [tips]
- Bethesda: Madonna of the Trail [tips]
- Bethesda: Hobbit House - Mushroom House [tips]
- Bethesda: Van Gogh's Starry Night in Door Knobs [tips]
- Boonsboro: Doug Bast's House of History
- Boring: Town Named Boring [tips]
- Bowie: National Capital Radio and Television Museum [tips]
- Burkittsville: Spook Hill [tips]
- Cambridge: Spocott Windmill [tips]
- Cambridge: Harriet Tubman Mural
- Catonsville: Spring Grove Mental Hospital Museum [tips]
- Clements: Giant SpongeBob [tips]
- Clinton: Home of the First Woman Hanged by U.S. Govt [tips]
- Cockeysville: Maryland in Blue and Gray
- Colesville: National Capital Trolley Museum [tips]
- College Park: Testudo the Diamondback Terrapin
- College Park: Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson Statue [tips]
- College Park: College Park Aviation Museum
- Colmar Manor: Dueling Grounds of Washington DC
- Columbia: Wizard Tree [tips]
- Crownsville: Muffler Man - The Fair Giant [tips]
- Edgemere: Giant Lawn Ornaments [tips]
- Ellicott City: Enchanted Forest at Clark's Elioak Farm [tips]
- Ellicott City: Enchanted Forest: Original Location [tips]
- Emmitsburg: Big Jinxed 9/11 Statue Of Flag-Raising Firefighters [tips]
- Frederick: Patsy Cline Lived Here [tips]
- Frederick: National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- Frederick: Jug Bridge Monument: Oldest in USA? [tips]
- Frederick: Roads and Rails Museum [tips]
- Frederick: Statue of John Hanson, First U.S. President [tips]
- Frederick: Trompe l'oeil Bridge Mural [tips]
- Frostburg: Noah's Ark Being Rebuilt
- Frostburg: America's Oldest Road Sign [tips]
- Frostburg: Hotel's Local History Museum [tips]
- Germantown: Earthoid: Earth Globe Water Storage Tank [tips]
- Germantown: The Cider Barrel - Old Road Stand [tips]
- Glen Burnie: Giant Crash Test Dummy [tips]
- Glen Burnie: Giant Rotted Molar Sculpture [tips]
- Glen Burnie: Mirror Yard [tips]
- Great Mills: SpongeBob [tips]
- Hagerstown: Giant Coke Bottle [tips]
- Hagerstown: Giant Crab on a Roof [tips]
- Havre De Grace: Impaled Vampire, Feejee Mermaid [tips]
- Hyattsville: Vanadu Art House
- Jessup: Monster Mini Golf [tips]
- Kensington: Mormon Temple - Fairy Tale Rockets [tips]
- Kingsville: Hoodoo Marker [tips]
- La Plata: La Plata Tornado Memorial Garden [tips]
- La Vale: First Toll Gate on the National Road [tips]
- Lanham: NASA Rocket Garden and Moon Tree [tips]
- Laurel: Dinosaur Fossils [tips]
- Leonardtown: Witch Rock of Moll Dyer
- Linthicum: William P. Didusch Urological Museum [tips]
- Linthicum: National Electronics Museum: Moon TV Camera
- Linthicum Heights: Star Wars Toys Museum [tips]
- Luke: Deadly Curve of Crosses [tips]
- Lutherville-Timonium: World's Largest Engagement Ring [tips]
- Manchester: River Valley Ranch - Wild West Shootouts [tips]
- Middletown: First Washington Monument
- National Harbor: President and Heroes Statues [tips]
- Newburg: Signs, Mascots, Dinosaurs [tips]
- Oakland: Rocket on a Trailer [tips]
- Ocean City: Ocean Gallery World Center [tips]
- Ocean City: Muffler Man - Pirate [tips]
- Ocean City: Airplane Over a Cave [tips]
- Ocean City: Shark Wedged in a Building [tips]
- Ocean City: Original Bill Tracy Haunted House [tips]
- Ocean City: Nanticoke the Inlet Indian [tips]
- Ocean City: Chicken in Formal Attire [tips]
- Oldtown: Paw Paw Canal Tunnel [tips]
- Oxon Hill: The Awakening - Buried Giant [tips]
- Pocomoke City: Shooting Star Jet [tips]
- Rockville: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda's Graves [tips]
- Rocky Ridge: Municipal Giant Slide - Sliding Board [tips]
- Salisbury: Sammy the Seagull [tips]
- Salisbury: Frank Perdue Mini-Museum [tips]
- Salisbury: Vintage Placemats Exhibit [tips]
- Savage: World's Oldest Surviving Wrought Iron Bridge [tips]
- Sharpsburg: Official William McKinley Coffee Break Monument
- Sharptown: Logging Truck Tombstone
- Silver Spring: National Museum of Health and Medicine
- Silver Spring: Rumored Grave of Petey, Little Rascals Dog
- Silver Spring: Prayer Stop - Tiny Church [tips]
- Silver Spring: Memorial Bust To the Homeless Mayor
- Silver Spring: Atlantic Surf Fountain [tips]
- Silver Spring: Giant Earth Globe [tips]
- Solomons Island: Easter Island Heads At Tiki Bar [tips]
- St. Mary's City: Freedom of Conscience [tips]
- Takoma Park: Roscoe the Rooster [tips]
- Temple Hills: Mercury Cougar Statue [tips]
- Towson: Divine's Grave [tips]
- Waldorf: Home of Dr. Mudd, Enabler of Lincoln's Assassin [tips]
- Westminster: Roland A. Remnant [tips]
