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 - Adelphi: Golden Bull
- Annapolis Junction: National Cryptologic Museum
- Annapolis: Hyman Rickover's Shiny Nose
- Annapolis: John Paul Jones Crypt
- Annapolis: Museum of unNatural History
- Annapolis: Surfin' Submarine Centennial Statue
- Annapolis: Windmill with Winged Pigs and Guitars
- Baltimore: American Visionary Art Museum
- Baltimore: BUS Stop Shelter
- Baltimore: Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum
- Baltimore: Baltimore's Washington Monument
- Baltimore: Big Pencil Stuck in a Wall
- Baltimore: Boat-Shaped Restaurant
- Baltimore: Bromo Seltzer Arts Clock Tower
- Baltimore: Bust of Frank Zappa on a Pole
- Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe's House
- Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe's Two Graves
- Baltimore: Giant Fiberglass Pineapple
- Baltimore: Giant Pushpin Bus Stop
- Baltimore: Giant RCA Dog Nipper
- Baltimore: Golden Eggs - Baltimore's Anaerobic Digesters
- Baltimore: Grave of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassin
- Baltimore: Inventor's Ouija Board Tombstone
- Baltimore: Liberty Ship
- Baltimore: Museum of Dentistry: Washington's Choppers
- Baltimore: National Great Blacks In Wax Museum
- Baltimore: Oldest Streetlight in America
- Baltimore: Ouija Board Named Here
- Baltimore: Papermoon Diner: Crazy Art Eatery
- Baltimore: Phoenix Shot Tower
- Baltimore: Poe Contemplates Shoe
- Baltimore: Safety City
- Baltimore: Sagging Tombstone
- Baltimore: Store Skewering Giant Carrot
- Baltimore: The Pagoda
- Baltimore: Train Safety Challenge
- Baltimore: USS Torsk SS-423 Submarine
- Baltimore: Vacant Lot Easter Island Head
- Baltimore: Where Poe Had His Last Drink
- Baltimore: Witch Board Museum
- Beltsville: Castle Good Knight
- Berlin: Cowboy with Ice Cream Cone
- Berlin: Frontier Town
- Berlin: Mermaid Museum
- Berlin: Shark From Jaws
- Bethesda: Hobbit House - Mushroom House
- Bethesda: Madonna of the Trail
- Bethesda: Van Gogh's Starry Night in Door Knobs
- Boonsboro: Crystal Grottoes Caverns: Maryland's Only Show Cave
- Boonsboro: Doug Bast's House of History
- Boring: Town Named Boring
- Bowie: National Capital Radio and Television Museum
- Burkittsville: Spook Hill
- Cambridge: American Flag and Black House
- Cambridge: Harriet Tubman Mural
- Cambridge: Spocott Windmill
- Catonsville: Spring Grove Mental Hospital Museum
- Centreville: Statue of a British Queen
- Clements: Giant SpongeBob
- Clinton: Home of the First Woman Hanged by U.S. Govt
- Cockeysville: Maryland in Blue and Gray
- Colesville: National Capital Trolley Museum
- College Park: College Park Aviation Museum
- College Park: Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson Statue
- College Park: Testudo the Diamondback Terrapin
- Colmar Manor: Dueling Grounds of Washington DC
- Columbia: Wizard Tree
- Crisfield: Bicentennial Pyramid Time Capsule
- Crisfield: King Blue: Mascot Crab
- Crownsville: Muffler Man - The Fair Giant
- Cumberland: George Washington's Headquarters
- Deer Park: Grover Cleveland's Honeymoon Cottage
- Edgemere: Giant Lawn Ornaments
- Elkridge: Horse Drawn Steampunk
- Elkton: Tiny Church
- Ellicott City: Enchanted Forest at Clark's Elioak Farm
- Ellicott City: Enchanted Forest: Original Location
- Emmitsburg: Big Jinxed 9/11 Statue Of Flag-Raising Firefighters
- Emmitsburg: Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
- Essex: Pizza Guy
- Forest Glen: National Park Seminary: Pagoda, Castle, Windmill
- Frederick: Charity the Dog
- Frederick: Dog Almost Melted for Bullets
- Frederick: First Lady Jane Hanson Memorial
- Frederick: Fountain Memorial to a Fountain Memorial
- Frederick: Hidden Bull Statue
- Frederick: Jug Bridge Monument: Oldest in USA?
- Frederick: National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- Frederick: Patsy Cline Lived Here
- Frederick: Statue of John Hanson, First U.S. President
- Frederick: Trompe l'oeil Bridge Mural
- Frostburg: America's Oldest Road Sign
- Frostburg: Hotel's Local History Museum
- Frostburg: Noah's Ark Being Rebuilt
- Germantown: Earthoid: Earth Globe Water Storage Tank
- Germantown: The Cider Barrel - Old Road Stand
- Glen Burnie: Giant Crash Test Dummy
- Glen Burnie: Giant Rotted Molar Sculpture
- Glen Burnie: Hot Dog Girl
- Glen Burnie: Mirror Yard
- Glen Echo: Glen Echo Park
- Grasonville: Maryland Watermen's Monument
- Great Mills: Sponge Bob or Bluey the Dog
- Greenbelt: Eleanor Roosevelt Tree in Utopia
- Hagerstown: Giant Coke Bottle
- Hagerstown: Giant Crab on a Roof
- Havre De Grace: Impaled Vampire, Feejee Mermaid
- Havre de Grace: Decoy Museum
- Havre de Grace: Graw Alley At Harmers Town Art Center
- Havre de Grace: Horse Race History Displays
- Hunt Valley: Computer Museum, Bloop Museum, National Electronics Museum
- Hyattsville: Jim Henson and Muppets Memorial
- Hyattsville: Library with Flying Saucer
- Hyattsville: Vanadu Art House
- Jefferson: Fake Castle for War Correspondents
- Jessup: Monster Mini Golf
- Kensington: Mormon Temple - Fairy Tale Rockets
- Kingsville: Hoodoo Marker
- La Plata: La Plata Tornado Memorial Garden
- La Vale: First Toll Gate on the National Road
- Lanham: NASA Rocket Garden and Moon Tree
- Laurel: Dinosaur Fossils
- Laurel: Parking Lot Where George Wallace Was Shot
- Leonardtown: Witch Rock of Moll Dyer
- Linthicum Heights: Star Wars Toys Museum
- Linthicum: William P. Didusch Urological Museum
- Luke: Deadly Curve of Crosses
- Lutherville-Timonium: World's Largest Engagement Ring
- Manchester: River Valley Ranch - Wild West Shootouts
- Middletown: First Washington Monument
- National Harbor: President and Heroes Statues
- Newburg: Signs, Mascots, Dinosaurs
- Oakland: Rocket on a Trailer
- Ocean City: Airplane Over a Cave
- Ocean City: Big 19th Century Anchor
- Ocean City: Chicken in Formal Attire
- Ocean City: Muffler Man - Pirate
- Ocean City: Nanticoke the Inlet Indian
- Ocean City: Ocean Gallery World Center
- Ocean City: Original Bill Tracy Haunted House
- Ocean City: Shark Wedged in a Building
- Oldtown: Paw Paw Canal Tunnel
- Oldtown: Private Toll Bridge
- Oxon Hill: The Awakening - Buried Giant
- Pasadena: Neon Pig Sign
- Pocomoke City: Shooting Star Jet
- Poolesville: Statue of Liberty at Buddhist Temple
- Queen Anne: Big Strawberry
- Rock Hall: Old Salt Statue
- Rockville: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda's Graves
- Rockville: Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Not
- Rocky Ridge: Giant Church Slide
- Salisbury: Frank Perdue Mini-Museum
- Salisbury: Sammy the Seagull
- Salisbury: Vintage Placemats Exhibit
- Savage: World's Oldest Surviving Wrought Iron Bridge
- Sharpsburg: Official William McKinley Coffee Break Monument
- Sharptown: Logging Truck Tombstone
- Silver Spring: Atlantic Surf Fountain
- Silver Spring: Big Acorn
- Silver Spring: Big Hand Releasing Birds
- Silver Spring: Giant Earth Globe
- 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
- Silver Spring: Rumored Grave of Petey, Little Rascals Dog
- Solomons Island: Tiki Bar Easter Island Heads
- St. Mary's City: Freedom of Conscience
- Stevensville: Sci-Fi Murals on Brewery Wall
- Sudlersville: Monument to "The Pride of Sudlersville"
- Takoma Park: Bird Calls Phone
- Takoma Park: Dragon Sculpture From Tree
- Takoma Park: Roscoe the Rooster
- Temple Hills: Mercury Cougar Statue
- Towson: Divine's Grave
- Waldorf: Home of Dr. Mudd, Enabler of Lincoln's Assassin
- Westminster: Roland A. Remnant
- Westminster: Whittaker Chambers' Pumpkin Patch
- 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: Feed the Poor Parking Meter
- 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
- 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: Roads and Rails Museum
- 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
- Thurmont: Presidential Theme Rooms and Mural
- Thurmont: Transformers, Metal Sculptures, Pumpkin Cannons
- Westminster: Important Civil War Bullet Holes
