Local Getaways

 

 

 

INSIDE HARFORD COUNTY   Anita C. Leight Estuary Center Brad's Produce Concord Point Lighthouse Conowingo Dam St. Georges Parish Eden Mill Park & Nature Center Havre de Grace Decoy Museum Havre de Grace Maritime Museum Lantern Queen Fiore Winery Ladew Topiary Gardens Gunpowder Falls State Park Hays House Museum Ladew Topiary Gardens Plumpton Park Zoo Spring Valley Farm Ripken Museum Skipjack Martha Lewis Susquehanna State Park Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra Swan Harbor Farm Hays House Museum Steppingstone Museum Susquehanna Museum Of Havre De Grace U.S. Army Ordnance Museum The Liriodendron Mariner Point Park Rockfield Manor Rocks State Park Tufton Professional Baseball/Ripken Stadium Trails

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OUTSIDE HARFORD COUNTY   Maryland Pennsylvania Washington Virginia     African Art Museum of Maryland American Dime Museum Antietam National Battlefield Assateague Island Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Baltimore Zoo Catoctin Mountain Park Catoctin Wild Life Preserve and Zoo Center Stage Clara Barton National Historic Site Deep Creek Lake State Park ESPN Zone Fort McHenry Fort Washington Frontier Town Western Park Gettysburg National Military Park Great Blacks in Wax Museum Hampton National Historic Site Harpers Ferry Maryland Symphony Orchestra Monocacy National Battlefield Morris A. Mechanic Theatre National Museum of Civil War Medicine Ocean City Oxford Bellevue Ferry River & Trail Outfitters Rocky Gap State Park Sandy Cove Schriver House Six Flags America Six Flags Great Adventure Tangier Island Cruises The Gettysburg Campaign Driving Tour The National Civil War Museum The Rupp House History Center Thomas Stone National Historic Site USS Constellation Walters Art Museum

MARYLAND

 

Salisbury Zoo

University of Maryland Art Gallery

Babe Ruth Museum

Medieval Times

National Museum of Dentistry

Harbor Cruises

Maryland Science Center

National Aquarium in Baltimore

Port Discovery

 

STRANGE PLACES

 

William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History of the American Urological Association

Presidential Pet Museum

Museum of Menstruation

Petey, the Little Rascals Dog burial site – Aspen Hill Pet Semetery

 

PENNSYLVANIA

 

Herr’s Factory Tour

The Crayola Factory

Dutch Wonderland

Hershey Park

Zippo Lighter Visitor Center

Sesame Place

Cherry-Crest Farm Corn Maze

The Amish Experience

Mill Bridge Village

Amish Village

Biblical Tabernacle Reproduction

Boyds Bear Country

Choo Choo Barn

Eagle Falls Thrills and Spills

Lancaster County History Museum

Hands On House Children’s Museum

Indian Echo Caverns

Kutztown Festival

Kitchen Kettle Village

Laserdome

Living the Underground Railroad

Longwood Gardens

Strasburg Railroad

National Christmas Center

The National Civil War Museum

National Watch and Clock Museum

National Toy Train Museum

Renaissance Faire

QVC Studio Tour

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Roadside America

Rainbow Dinner Theatre

Sight & Sound® Living Waters Theatre

Sight & Sound® Millennium Theatre®

State Museum of Pennsylvania

Sturgis Pretzel House

The Amish Barn

VF Outlet Shopping

Tractor Pulls

Harley Davidson Factory Tour

 

STRANGE PLACES

 

The Mutter Museum – more pictures here

Baker Mansion – Haunted Wedding Dress

 

WASHINGTON

 

Smithsonian

The National Zoo

National Air and Space Museum

Washington National Cathedral

Thomas Jefferson Memorial                                                                                                        

National Museum of Natural History

The Library of Congress

Korean War Veterans Memorial

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

White House Tours

National Gallery of Art

National Portrait Gallery

Capital Children’s Museum

Franciscan Monastery

International Spy Museum

Woodrow Wilson House

National Museum of Health and Medicine

National Shrine of Immaculate Conception

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

STRANGE PLACES

 

Staircase from The Exorcist - at the end of M street in Georgetown, DC

 

VIRGINIA

 

Luray Zoo

Colonial Williamsburg

Christ Church

Claude Moore Colonial Farm

Fairfax Museum & Visitor Center                                                            

The Old Presbyterian Meeting House

Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum

Sully Historic Site

Water Country USA

Busch Gardens

Kings Dominion

Birthplace of Country Music Museum

Children’s Museum of Richmond                                    

Children’s Museum of Virginia

Dinosaur Land

Crystal Caverns at Hupp’s Hill

Shenandoah Caverns

Luray Caverns

Norfolk Botanical Gardens

Chincoteague’s 79^th Annual Fireman’s Carnival Pony Swim & Auction

Chincoteague’s The Island Aquarium

Skyline Caverns

Grand Caverns Regional Park

Shenandoah Caverns

American Celebration on Parade

Science Museum of Virginia

Route 11 Potato Chip Factory

Shenandoah National Park

The Garden Maze

Virginia Air and Space Center

Virginia Discovery Museum

Virginia Holocaust Museum

Virginia Sports Hall of Fame

Monticello – Home of Thomas Jefferson

 

STRANGE PLACES

 

The World’s Only Butt Kicking Machine

Beebe Ranch – See stuffed Misty and Stormy of Chincoteague

Foamhenge – Stone Henge the American Way

The Monster Museum

Miniature Graceland

Walton’s Mountain Museum

 

If you have found a great place to visit please email me and I’ll add it to the list.