Ellicott City is an unincorporated community located in Howard County near Baltimore. The town features shops, restaurants, off the...
Middle River is located in Baltimore County, Maryland. Much of the town was built to support workers...
Cockeysvile is named after the Cockey family from the late 1700s who built one of the first homes and...
Gaithersburg, MD was incorporated in 1878 as a town and became a city in 1968. Its name comes...
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Perito Moreno glacier in El Calafate, Argentina. This is probably the most...
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center is operated by the Wildfowl Trust of North America with the goal of training environmental...
Terrapin Nature Park is located just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. To get to the park from most...
Downs Park is a small park located along the Chesapeake Bay in Pasadena, MD. It is a nice local...
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The Shoemaker Country is a store operated by two generations of Maryland family that turns antique wood and architectural salvage into furniture. The store...
The Antiques & Old Stuff is located near the entrance of Ellicott City near the bridge. It’s one of the smaller antique shops in...
The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton is dedicated to the first American-born saint, Elizabeth Seton. From the visitor center you can take a...
The Maryland Renaissance Festival in Crofton, Maryland is one of my favorite local events. The festival has more than one hundred craft stands. There...
NOTE: As of October, 2023, the Zebop in Ellicott City closed. There are still two locations: Frederick, MD and Stone Harbor, NJ. Zebop is...
Art & Artisan is a store that sells fine & functional art made my local artists and artisans. The jewerly they sell range from...
The Brunswick Railroad Museum is located in Brunswick, MD not far from the train station. The museum focuses on the construction of the Baltimore...
Every winter the Gaylord National Convention Center hosts the ICE! event at the National Harbor. The main attractions are the ice sculptures made from...
Luray Caverns is a large cave system located in Luray, Virginia. The drive from Maryland to the caverns can take between two and three...
The Baltimore Aquarium is one of Baltimore’s main tourist destination. It includes flora and fauna from different ecosystem ranging from reefs, bays, rivers, and...
Main Street Oriental Rugs started as a direct importer of authentic oriental rugs 10 years ago in Ellicott City. Today, the store have rugs...
The Ellicott Firehouse Museum was Howard County's first firehouse. The structure was built around 1889 and exhibits wide array of fire apparatus, hoses, nozzles...
