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Inner Harbor Baltimore
83 Reviews Baltimore's Inner Harbor is one of United States oldest seaports. It is a popular tourist attraction and a National Land Mark as well. I was blown away on arrival at the harbor last week. I'm not sure...
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Inner Harbor Annapolis
15 Reviews Here is where many of America's most prestigious "old money" families tie up their pride and joy--their sailboats. In Annapolis, some of the country's finest sailors go head-to-head in competitions,...
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National Aquarium Baltimore
36 Reviews We spent 5 hours in this place to see just about all that it had to offer. There are many exhibits and rooms. They have a live dolphin show. Be careful of sitting in the first few rows because you...
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United States Naval Academy Annapolis
21 Reviews The riverside campus of the U.S. Naval Academy. Midshipmen were trained at sea before the academy was founded as the Naval School in 1845. The school was established on the site of Fort Severn, a...
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Fells Point Baltimore
17 Reviews While the shipyards that attracted people from all over the world to settle in Fells Point may have been relegated to the historical archives, Fells Point international flavor remains palpable through...
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Maryland State Capital Building Annapolis
12 Reviews The Maryland State House is the oldest American state house still in use. The Maryland General Assembly convenes here for three months of each year. The Speaker of the House of Delegates and the...
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Mount Vernon Baltimore
26 Reviews Located by the Washington Monument at Charles and Mount Vernon Place streets, the United Methodist Church is a religious attraction and one of the most significant buildings in all of Baltimore. It is...
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Historical Explorations Annapolis
13 Reviews The Annapolis Historic Preservation Commission provides a Guide to Architecture in Annapolis. We used this map of the historic district as a walking tour; 52 sites & homes were identified photographs...
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Fort McHenry Baltimore
18 Reviews Fort McHenry was one of the principal forts guarding the harbor of Baltimore. And most famously, events there during the War of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write the lyrics to "The Star...
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Sailboats and Watercraft Annapolis
4 Reviews The Annapolis Maritime Museum (Barge House) is a stop you'll appreciate if you are interested in collections of maritime artifacts and the history of this area. The hours are Saturday 11 am-4 pm....
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Federal Hill Baltimore
6 Reviews Federal Hill in South Baltimore is the large hill that most tourist will see while walking in the Inner Harber. If you climb the hill there is a large tree shaded park with several monuments. From the...
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Museums - Other Baltimore
26 Reviews Every city worth seeing has at least a few of those rather obscure, unusual places that most people never bother to visit. One such place is the Baltimore Public Works Museum. It's dedicated to all...
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World Trade Center Baltimore
10 Reviews Offering panoramic views across Baltimore's Inner Harbour, downtown areas and beyond, Baltimore's World Trade Center is the place to go for visitors to "Charm City". The World Trade Centre in...
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Camden Yards - Raven's Stadium Baltimore
22 Reviews In 1984, Baltimore’s national league football team the Colts, left in the middle of the night and moved to Indianapolis, leaving this football loving city heartbroken and longing for a team for ten...
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Little Italy. Baltimore
5 Reviews Located a very short walk east of the Inner Harbor, Little Italy is a friendly and unique neighborhood in Baltimore. From the Feast of Saint Anthony in June and the Feast of Saint Gabriel in August,...
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The Balitmore Zoo Baltimore
5 Reviews When my oldest daughter was a baby, we would go places with animals because they engaged her attention. My mother and I took her to the zoo in Baltimore when she was about 18 months old. I'm sure the...
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Historical Explorations Baltimore
17 Reviews A trivia question: what do the Washington Monuments in Baltimore and nearby DC have in common besides honoring America's first president? Answer: both were designed by one man, Robert Mills. The...
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B&O Railroad Museum Baltimore
4 Reviews Most people take the railroads for granted. But in 1829, they made their first appearance in the United States. It happened right here, in Baltimore. It was a sensation, and it changed history. The...
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American Visionary Art Museum Baltimore
7 Reviews A lot of unique conversational works are displayed. Painings, sculptures, some interactive displays and some short films. Many will make you laugh or say wow! You can only picture the items that are...
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Maryland Science Center Baltimore
4 Reviews Great interactive experience for children. Offers multiple exhibits including dinosaurs, planet earth, the human body, outer space and Chesapeake Bay life and designed to stimulate learning and...
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Great Blacks in Wax Museum Baltimore
3 Reviews This museum is very moving and is not for the faint at heart. They even warn parents with children under 12 to decide if they can see the lynching displays. You will not come back out the same person...
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Amtrak - Penn Station Baltimore
3 Reviews Since June 2004, Jonathan Borofsky’s 51-foot-tall aluminum sculpture towers over the plaza in front of Pennsylvania Station. Lots of locals has their own opinion of “Male/Female”—the shiny, vertically...
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Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore
4 Reviews The museum's neoclassical main building was conceived by John Russell Pope, architect of the National Gallery in Washington DC. This great art museum contains paintings from some of the finest and...
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Useless, Un-related information Baltimore
3 Reviews luckily for me, this photo does not expose my undergarments. it is the sole full-length photo of me that is g-rated. apparently frank has this special camera he uses on ladies that make their special...
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Canton Baltimore
1 Review Patapsco River is the main river around Baltimore; it's easily accessed at Canton, where you can walk along it's shores. Unlike the Inner Harbor, the Patapsco River doesn't have a multitude of...
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St. Mary's is the 4th oldest British city in North America and was settled in 1649. It served as the capital of the colony of Maryland until 1695. Today a park preserves replicas of many of the original buildings of St Mary's.
Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the Baltimore Museum of Art now has over 90,000 works of art in its collections, making it the largest art museum in Maryland. Among the highlights of the museum's pieces is the world's largest collection of works by Henri Matisse, and the Cone Collection, which was donated by sisters Claribel and Etta Cone and has works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.The museum is housed in a building located in Wyman Park north of downtown Baltimore. The building was constructed between 1927 and 1929 in the style of a Roman Temple. It has three floors of exhibit space, including rooms that are exact replicas of rooms from six historic Maryland houses.The museum's collections are divided into categories that include African Art, American Art, Antioch Mosaics, Art...
Established in 1934 and originally called the Walters Art Gallery, the Walters Art Museum contains the collections amassed by William Thompson Walters and his son, Henry Walters. William Thompson Walters began collecting art after he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Henry Walters later added to the collection, and in 1909 housed it in the plazzo-style building on Charles Street in which the collection is still located. Upon his death, Henry Walters bequeathed the collection and its building to the City of Baltimore for the purpose of sharing the works of art with the public.The 22,000-piece collection is divided into categories based on different ages and areas of the world. The exhibits on Ancient Art include pieces from Egypt, Nubia, Greece, Rome, Etruria, and the Near East. Works in Art of the Ancient Americas are from the Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan cultures in...
Baltimore has historically been one of the major centers of industry and manufacturing in the United States. The city had the country's first passenger railroad service, the world's largest copper refinery, the first traffic light, and the oldest gas company in the United States. The Baltimore Museum of Industry was founded in 1977 to celebrate the city's industrial and manufacturing history.Housed in an old cannery, the museum has more than 100,000 items on display that document various types of manufacturing and industry from the early twentieth century. Exhibits include the Baltimore, the oldest surviving steam tugboat, as well as recreations of a cannery, garment loft, machine shop, and Dr. Bunting's Pharmacy. (Dr. George Bunting was the inventor of the Noxema skin-care products). In addition, there are exhibits on Baltimore's early food industry which feature such companies as...
Designed by French architect Jean Foncin, Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine was constructed in 1798 to protect the vitally important Port of Baltimore from enemy attack. Its design is in the form of a five-pointed star surrounded by a dry moat. The fort is situated at the tip of Locust Point, which juts into the opening of Baltimore Harbor. It was named in honor of James McHenry, a Scots-Irish immigrant soldier and surgeon who served as Secretary of War under President George Washington.Fort McHenry is most noted as the inspiration for the poem, The Star-Spangled Banner, which was eventually set to the tune of To Anacreon in Heaven to become the national anthem of the United States. During the War of 1812, Fort McHenry was continuously bombarded by the British navy for 25 hours between September 13 and 14, 1814. The fort withstood the bombardment and held Baltimore...
The Maryland Science Center opened in 1976, and underwent a major renovation and expansion in 2004. It is operated by the Maryland Academy of Sciences which was founded in 1797, making it the oldest scientific institution in the state, and one of the oldest in the country. The museum has three levels of exhibits, a planetarium, an observatory, and an IMAX Theater. Its displays are designed to teach visitors about such scientific subjects as physical science, space, earth science, the human body, and the natural world.The Dinosaur Mysteries exhibit has full-scale models of the bodies of Astrodon (the Maryland state dinosaur) and Acrocanthosaurus, as well as full-scale replicas of the skeletons of Gigantosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Herrerasaurus, Tarbosaurus, and Compsognathus. A mock paleontological dig allows visitors to uncover dinosaur bones. The Newton's Alley exhibit offers hands-on...
Part of the Historic Ships in Baltimore exhibit, the U.S.S. Constellation is a sloop-of-war that was constructed in 1854 for the United States Navy. She was the second American naval ship named the Constellation. The first, a frigate, was disassembled at the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virgina, the same yard where the present Constellation was constructed. Recycled materials from the frigate were probably used in the construction of the sloop-of-war.The U.S.S. Constellation was the last sail-only ship designed and built for the United States Navy. Her length is 199 feet (61 meters) overall, and 181 feet (55 meters) at the waterline. Her beam is 43 feet (13 meters) at its widest point. She had a complement of 20 officers, 220 sailors, and 45 marines.Between 1855 and 1858, the U.S.S. Constellation mainly performed diplomatic duties as part of the United States Navy Mediterranean...
Baltimore's Inner Harbor is made up of the upper reaches of Baltimore Harbor, an inlet of Chesapeake Bay, and the mouth of the northwest branch of the Patapsco River. The term "Inner Harbor" refers not only to the harbor itself, but the surrounding area of the city that has been developed into a major tourist attraction.The Inner Harbor made Baltimore a major American seaport as early as the 1700s, but its shallow waters (prior to dredging) were not conducive to large ships or heavy industry, most of which was concentrated at Locust Point, Fell's Point, or Canton, areas outside of Baltimore itself. Baltimore's port therefore declined, and the Inner Harbor was eventually dominated by abandoned buildings and rotting piers.Begininning in the 1950s, most of these abandoned buildings were torn down and replaced by open, grass-covered parks that were used for recreation and large-scale events....
Opened in 1981, the National Aquarium was one of the first major developments that helped spawn the renewal of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The aquarium contains about 16,500 specimens representing 660 species. Its mission is to inspire the conservation of the world's aquatic treasures.The building was designed by architect Peter Chermayeff of Peter Chermayeff, LLC. There is 115,000 square feet (10,684 square meters) of exhibit space in three pavilions, the Pier 3 Pavilion (which has most of the main exhibits), the Pier 4 Pavilion (which has exhibits about the various species of jellyfish and how environmental change affects them), and the Glass Pavilion (which has an exhibit about the wildlife of Australia). Overall, there are about 1,000,000 gallons (3,785,412 liters) of water contained in the aquarium's various tanks and pools.The Pier 3 Pavilion has five levels, each with a different...
The Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum features exhibits about the life and career of George Herman "Babe" Ruth, America's first sports celebrity and arguably the greatest baseball player who ever lived. During his baseball career, which spanned 22 seasons, Babe Ruth played for three teams (the Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox, and the New York Yankees). He spent most of his career with the New York Yankees, a team he led to seven pennants and four World Series titles. He set records for the most home runs (714), slugging percentage (.690), runs batted in (2,217), and on-base plus slugging (1.164).Babe Ruth was born in 1895 in the row house typical of Baltimore architecture of the early 1800s. The house was leased by his grandfather, Pius Schamberger, and the Babe never actually lived in the house. His family lived a few blocks away over a tavern owned and operated by his father, George...
Marriott Baltimore Waterfront Baltimore
4 Reviews and 741 Opinions I was aghast at how my companion and I were treated by almost the entire hotel staff. From checking...
Historic Inns of Annapolis Annapolis
6 Reviews and 431 Opinions Although we did not stay here, it looked like a lovely Inn right smack in the middle of Annapolis.
Hilton Suites Ocean City Oceanfront Ocean City
1 Review and 649 Opinions We stayed at the Hilton to celebrate our 2nd Wedding Anniversary on April 23rd, 2007. The room was...
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