Maryland Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Maryland. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Baltimore
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Accident: Town Named Accident
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Adelphi: Golden Bull
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Annapolis Junction: National Cryptologic Museum
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Annapolis: Hyman Rickover's Shiny Nose
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Annapolis: John Paul Jones Crypt
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Annapolis: Museum of unNatural History
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Annapolis: Surfin' Submarine Centennial Statue
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Annapolis: Windmill with Winged Pigs and Guitars
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Baltimore: American Visionary Art Museum
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Baltimore: BUS Stop Shelter
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Baltimore: Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum
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Baltimore: Baltimore's Washington Monument
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Baltimore: Big Pencil Stuck in a Wall
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Baltimore: Boat-Shaped Restaurant
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Baltimore: Bromo Seltzer Arts Clock Tower
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Baltimore: Bust of Frank Zappa on a Pole
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Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe's House
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Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe's Two Graves
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Baltimore: Feed the Poor Parking Meter
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Baltimore: Full-Size Easter Island Head
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Baltimore: Giant Fiberglass Pineapple
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Baltimore: Giant Pushpin Bus Stop
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Baltimore: Giant RCA Dog Nipper
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Baltimore: Golden Eggs - Baltimore's Anaerobic Digesters
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Baltimore: Grave of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassin
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Baltimore: Inventor's Ouija Board Tombstone
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Baltimore: Liberty Ship
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Baltimore: Museum of Dentistry: Washington's Choppers
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Baltimore: National Great Blacks In Wax Museum
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Baltimore: Oldest Streetlight in America
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Baltimore: Ouija Board Named Here
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Baltimore: Papermoon Diner: Crazy Art Eatery
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Baltimore: Phoenix Shot Tower
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Baltimore: Poe Contemplates Shoe
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Baltimore: Safety City
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Baltimore: Sagging Tombstone
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Baltimore: Store Skewering Giant Carrot
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Baltimore: The Pagoda
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Baltimore: Train Safety Challenge
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Baltimore: USS Torsk SS-423 Submarine
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Baltimore: Where Poe Had His Last Drink
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Beltsville: Castle Good Knight
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Berlin: Cowboy with Ice Cream Cone
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Berlin: Frontier Town
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Bethesda: Hobbit House - Mushroom House
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Bethesda: Madonna of the Trail
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Bethesda: Van Gogh's Starry Night in Door Knobs
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Boonsboro: Doug Bast's House of History
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Boring: Town Named Boring
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Bowie: National Capital Radio and Television Museum
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Burkittsville: Spook Hill
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Cambridge: American Flag and Black House
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Cambridge: Harriet Tubman Mural
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Cambridge: Spocott Windmill
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Catonsville: Spring Grove Mental Hospital Museum
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Centreville: Statue of a British Queen
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Clements: Giant SpongeBob
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Clinton: Home of the First Woman Hanged by U.S. Govt
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Cockeysville: Maryland in Blue and Gray
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Colesville: National Capital Trolley Museum
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College Park: College Park Aviation Museum
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College Park: Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson Statue
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College Park: Testudo the Diamondback Terrapin
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Colmar Manor: Dueling Grounds of Washington DC
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Columbia: Wizard Tree
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Crisfield: Bicentennial Pyramid Time Capsule
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Crisfield: King Blue: Mascot Crab
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Crownsville: Muffler Man - The Fair Giant
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Cumberland: George Washington's Headquarters
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Deer Park: Grover Cleveland's Honeymoon Cottage
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Edgemere: Giant Lawn Ornaments
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Elkridge: Horse Drawn Steampunk
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Elkton: Tiny Church
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Ellicott City: Enchanted Forest at Clark's Elioak Farm
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Ellicott City: Enchanted Forest: Original Location
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Emmitsburg: Big Jinxed 9/11 Statue Of Flag-Raising Firefighters
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Emmitsburg: Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Forest Glen: National Park Seminary: Pagoda, Castle, Windmill
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Frederick: Charity the Dog
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Frederick: Dog Almost Melted for Bullets
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Frederick: Fountain Memorial to a Fountain Memorial
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Frederick: Hidden Bull Statue
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Frederick: Jug Bridge Monument: Oldest in USA?
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Frederick: National Museum of Civil War Medicine
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Frederick: Patsy Cline Lived Here
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Frederick: Roads and Rails Museum
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Frederick: Statue of John Hanson, First U.S. President
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Frederick: Trompe l'oeil Bridge Mural
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Frostburg: America's Oldest Road Sign
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Frostburg: Hotel's Local History Museum
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Frostburg: Noah's Ark Being Rebuilt
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Germantown: Earthoid: Earth Globe Water Storage Tank
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Germantown: The Cider Barrel - Old Road Stand
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Glen Burnie: Giant Crash Test Dummy
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Glen Burnie: Giant Rotted Molar Sculpture
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Glen Burnie: Mirror Yard
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Grasonville: Maryland Watermen's Monument
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Great Mills: SpongeBob
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Hagerstown: Giant Coke Bottle
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Hagerstown: Giant Crab on a Roof
- Havre De Grace: Impaled Vampire, Feejee Mermaid
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Havre de Grace: Decoy Museum
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Hyattsville: Jim Henson and Muppets Memorial
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Hyattsville: Library with Flying Saucer
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Hyattsville: Vanadu Art House
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Jessup: Monster Mini Golf
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Kensington: Mormon Temple - Fairy Tale Rockets
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Kingsville: Hoodoo Marker
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La Plata: La Plata Tornado Memorial Garden
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La Vale: First Toll Gate on the National Road
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Lanham: NASA Rocket Garden and Moon Tree
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Laurel: Dinosaur Fossils
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Laurel: Parking Lot Where George Wallace Was Shot
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Leonardtown: Witch Rock of Moll Dyer
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Linthicum Heights: Star Wars Toys Museum
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Linthicum: National Electronics Museum: Moon TV Camera
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Linthicum: William P. Didusch Urological Museum
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Luke: Deadly Curve of Crosses
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Lutherville-Timonium: World's Largest Engagement Ring
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Manchester: River Valley Ranch - Wild West Shootouts
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Middletown: First Washington Monument
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National Harbor: President and Heroes Statues
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Newburg: Signs, Mascots, Dinosaurs
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Oakland: Rocket on a Trailer
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Ocean City: Airplane Over a Cave
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Ocean City: Big 19th Century Anchor
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Ocean City: Chicken in Formal Attire
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Ocean City: Giraffe Impersonating An Ostrich
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Ocean City: Muffler Man - Pirate
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Ocean City: Nanticoke the Inlet Indian
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Ocean City: Ocean Gallery World Center
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Ocean City: Original Bill Tracy Haunted House
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Ocean City: Shark Wedged in a Building
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Oldtown: Paw Paw Canal Tunnel
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Oldtown: Private Toll Bridge
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Oxon Hill: The Awakening - Buried Giant
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Pasadena: Neon Pig Sign
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Pocomoke City: Shooting Star Jet
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Poolesville: Statue of Liberty at Buddhist Temple
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Queen Anne: Big Strawberry
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Rockville: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda's Graves
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Rockville: Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Not
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Rocky Ridge: Municipal Giant Slide - Sliding Board
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Salisbury: Frank Perdue Mini-Museum
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Salisbury: Sammy the Seagull
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Salisbury: Vintage Placemats Exhibit
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Savage: World's Oldest Surviving Wrought Iron Bridge
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Sharpsburg: Official William McKinley Coffee Break Monument
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Sharptown: Logging Truck Tombstone
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Silver Spring: Atlantic Surf Fountain
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Silver Spring: Big Acorn
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Silver Spring: Big Hand Releasing Birds
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Silver Spring: Giant Earth Globe
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Silver Spring: Longest Single Span Escalator in the Western Hemisphere
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Silver Spring: Memorial Bust To the Homeless Mayor
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Silver Spring: National Museum of Health and Medicine
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Silver Spring: Prayer Stop - Tiny Church
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Silver Spring: Rumored Grave of Petey, Little Rascals Dog
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Solomons Island: Easter Island Heads At Tiki Bar
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St. Mary's City: Freedom of Conscience
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Sudlersville: Monument to "The Pride of Sudlersville"
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Takoma Park: Dragon Sculpture From Tree
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Takoma Park: Roscoe the Rooster
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Temple Hills: Mercury Cougar Statue
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Towson: Divine's Grave
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Waldorf: Home of Dr. Mudd, Enabler of Lincoln's Assassin
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Westminster: Roland A. Remnant
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Westminster: Whittaker Chambers' Pumpkin Patch
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Wye Mills: Old Wye Oak Tree
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Aberdeen: Atomic Cannon
- Aberdeen: US Army Ordnance Museum
- Annapolis: Official Back Porch Ronald Reagan
- Annapolis: Presidential Pet Museum
- Baltimore: American Dime Museum
- Baltimore: Geppi's Entertainment Museum
- Baltimore: Hug Me Sweater Tree
- Baltimore: Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting
- Baltimore: National Pinball Museum
- Baltimore: Pink Flamingo
- Baltimore: World's Largest Trash Can
- Berlin: Shark From Jaws
- Berwyn: House Shaped like a Dog
- Boonsboro: White Frog Colony
- Brookeville: Terrifying Brookeville Angel
- Chevy Chase: World's Largest Rubber Band Ball - 1998-2006
- Clear Spring: House of Hocus Pocus
- Cockeysville: Large Chair
- Elkton: Golden Buddha
- Ellicott City: Bagpipe Museum
- Fort Meade: National Vigilance Park
- Fort Washington: Giant Hammer
- Frederick: Towering Peace Candle Tree
- Glen Burnie: Tiny Church (for Geese?)
- Hagerstown: Rooftop Rocking Chair
- Havre de Grace: Desert Storm Muffler Man
- Kensington: Easter Island Head
- LaVale: Large Golden Ear
- Manchester: Paper Mache Cow
- New Carrollton: Museum of Menstruation
- Ocean City: Five-story-high Ice Mountain
- Ocean City: Giant Martini Glass
- Ocean City: Lost Galaxy Golf
- Oxon Hill: Air Force One Replica
- Port Tobacco: Adult Pirate Ship
- Rosedale: Cateraptasaurus: Mecha-Dinosaur
- Thurmont: Presidential Theme Rooms and Mural
- Thurmont: Transformers, Metal Sculptures, Pumpkin Cannons
- Westminster: Important Civil War Bullet Holes