Baltimore - Surroundings

Ballestone Manor features American decorative arts displays from 1780 to 1880. Living history re-enactments as well as haunted house tours are offered.

Edgewater is home to Historic London Town and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Historic London Town and Gardens is a 23 acre museum and park with the William Brown House (circa 1760) and other reconstructed colonial buildings, an eight-acre woodland garden, the Richard Hill Garden of native and imported medicinal plants; and a multi-purpose pavilion. There is an ongoing archaeological investigation in search of the "lost town" of London.

The Thomas Viaduct, begun in 1832, was the first train bridge ever to be built on a curve. The Underground Railroad made use of the viaduct for shelter in the years before the Civil War. It would become a defense post for the Union during the Civil War.

The Eighth Medieval Times Castle can hold 1,000 people and features 20 Andalusian stallions. The Maryland Castle is located inside one of the state's largest malls, Arundel Mills.

Notable displays at the Historical Electronics Museum include actual radar, radio and other electronics systems, including such items as the camera system used by Apollo 11 astronauts during their July 1969 landing on the moon. The galleries of exhibits include Cold War radar, fundamentals to provide a basic understanding of electricity and magnetism, sonar systems in the Under the Sea area as well as a Communications section.

Fire Museum of Maryland highlights firefighting apparatus from 1806 to 1957. Highlights include a circa 1875 horsedrawn wagon, to motorized and unique vehicles. The Discovery Room allows visitors to try on uniforms and sit in the driver's seat of a 1939 Mack pumping engine.