Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse: See the Light

Love lighthouses? Find out more about these fascinating structures that played a huge part in the early seagoing history of the nation. The Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse is one of the first of its kind to employ the ‘screw pile’ method of construction, which avoids the necessity of building a concrete foundation, but instead screws [...]

Heavy Seas Brewery: Baltimore Craft Beer

Peg Leg Imperial Stout, Davy Jones Lager, Winter Storm Ale, and Holy Sheet Abbey Ale are some of the ingeniously named beers turned out at this Baltimore brewery. They’re one of the biggest craft brewers in the U.S., turning out roughly 20,000 barrels a year which are distributed throughout the east coast. Stop by for [...]

Read Street Books and Coffee

Could there possibly be a more perfect location for a bookstore than on Read Street? Known as ‘the little bookstore/coffeehouse with a big heart’, Read Street Books and Coffee is the perfect place to relax with your favorite novel or biography and sip a cup of locally roasted java. You can also nibble on one [...]

The Charles Theater: Baltimore’s Palace Of Cinema

Baltimore has a very unusual place in cinematic history—the town’s most famous director, pencil-mustached sleaze lover John Waters, doesn’t exactly have the kind of Oscar pedigree you get in New York or Los Angeles. But what he does have is charm, and that’s a quality he shares with the Charles Theater, Baltimore’s oldest moviehouse. Located [...]

Evergreen Museum and Library

A visit to the Evergreen Museum and Library takes you back in time to the Gilded Age, when Baltimore’s Garrett family was railroad royalty. The opulent 1878 Evergreen Mansion was their 48-room estate situated on 26 immaculately landscaped acres. A tour of the home-turned-museum lets you explore their collection of decorative arts, sculpture, rare books, [...]

Fell’s Point: Visit A Historic Neighborhood in Baltimore

Fell’s Point is a popular and fun neighborhood in downtown Baltimore located close to the Inner Harbor. A great spot to spend the afternoon, its easy to spend hours walking the quaint cobblestone streets, shopping at boutiques, and dining at some of Baltimore’s most popular restaurants. Fell's Point also has a vibrant nightlife, as the [...]

American Visionary Art Museum: Ways of Seeing

What’s visionary art? It’s the creative endeavor of self-taught artists, who express themselves in whatever medium their inner voice describes. When it comes to the American Visionary Art Museum, that means it can be it can be art made with toothpicks, yarn, bottle caps, old watches, and fishing line, as well as paint and clay. [...]

The Baltimore Museum of Industry: Monument to Progress

Explore and celebrate the world of the workers and industries that made America the industrial capital of the world. Over 100,000 artifacts tell the story of a time when Baltimore was one of the biggest industrial cities in the U.S., with shipyards, a copper refinery, the world’s first gas company, and even the world’s first [...]

Homewood Museum: Historic Home

The 1775 Homewood Estate was once the residence of the daughter of Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Today you can tour the home and grounds to get a glimpse of life during the early beginnings of Baltimore society. Rare furniture, English ceramics, Chinese and French porcelain, fine silver, Belgian carpets, and decorative [...]

Baltimore Museum of Art: Contemporary, Modern and 19th Century Art

Founded back in 1914, the Baltimore Museum of Art is a beautiful building that is filled with history and located near the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University. The museum’s collection includes works by Matisse, Picasso, Manet, van Gogh, and Renoir among other masters, and has over 90,000 objects including a large collection of African [...]

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