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One of America's oldest seaports, since the 1600s the port of Baltimore has attracted ships and visitors from all over the world. Baltimore is the largest city in the state and boasts six universiteies, shipbuilding, a major league team, and much more. A year-round destination, there's no bad time of year to visit Baltimore. Visitors to Baltimore can go out to a ball game, attend the symphony, shop 'til they drop, and visit historic sites all in the same day...and still have time left to enjoy a meal at one of the city's famous restaurants. Events include Chinese Lunar New Year Festival, of Federal Hill, Preakness Celebration, Baltimore Herb Festival, and the Baltimore Fourth of July Celebration.

1840 House

800 E. Lombard St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-3156

It features guided tours and a living history presentation portraying the familylife of a 19th-century wheelwright.

9 Front Street

Shot Tower Park

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 837-5424

Home of Baltimore mayor Thorowgood Smith until 1804 and before him home of a shipping magnate.

B&O Railroad Museum

901 W. Pratt St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 752-2490

This museum consists of an extensive collection of original and replica locomotives, dating back to 1829. At one time there stood shops surrounding the station that built thousands of cars and engines known as the "The Railroad University."

Babe Ruth Birthplace/Baltimore Orioles Museums

216 Emory St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 727-1539

This site contains the birthplace of Babe Ruth and the museum contains Babe Ruth photographs, paintings, and memorabilia; Maryland's other baseball greats; and the Baltimore Orioles.

Baltimore City Conservatory

Druid Hill Park, near entrance

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-0180

"The Palm House" is what the conservatory is known as because of its collection of tropical plants.

Baltimore City Hall

100 N. Holiday St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 837-5424

This historic site has been restored in sections of historical or architectural significance and has some of the finest examples of architectural ironwork in the country. The building also includes a 110-foot rotunda, a courtyard, galleries and exhibits relating to the city's history.

Baltimore City Life Museums

33 S. Front St. between Lombard and Baltimoree Sts.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-3523

A group of attractions in downtown Baltimore.

Baltimore Maritime Museum

Inner Harbour, Pier 3 - Pratt St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-3854

A museum of ships containing the USS Torsk, a floating lighthouse called Chesapeake, and the Coast Guard cutter Taney, the last ship afloat during the attack on Pearl Harbour.

Baltimore Museum of Art

N. Charles and 31st sts.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-7100

This museum houses a permanent collection of more than 100,000 objects, ranging from mosaics to contemporary art.

Baltimore Museum of Industry

1415 Key Hwy.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 727-4808

A museum housing in an 1865 oyster cannery, which exhibits the social and economic history of Baltimore's industries including belt-driven machinery and a cannery.

Baltimore Public Works Museum

E. Falls Ave. at Eastern Ave.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-5565

A museum in a 1912 sewage pumping station that has traced the history and development of the city's public works through a collection of more than 2,000 items.

Baltimore Zoo

Druid Hill Park

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 366-5466

There are 1,200 birds, mammals and reptiles and a large breeding colony of African black-footed penguins in 180 acres.

Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Cathedral and Mulberry Sts.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 727-3564

The oldest cathedral in the United States.

Bufano Sculpture Garden

Dunning Park, John Hopkins University, behind Mudd Hall

Baltimore

Maryland

This wooded garden area is around 11 scultures of animals designed and made by Beniamino Bufano.

Carroll Mansion

800 E. Lombard St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-3523

Charles Carroll of Carrollton's winter home, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Center for Urban Archaeology

800 E. Lombard St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-3156

A center offering a display of artifacts featuring ceramics and glassware from 18 and 19 century homes, industries and shops.

Charles Center

Around Charles and Lombard Sts.

Baltimore

Maryland

Parks and plazas are infused with tall office and apartment buildings.

City Markets

Baltimore

Maryland

(410)685-6169 or (410)396-9050

A set of markets around the Baltimore area featuring large indoor areas, crowded with stalls of vender's foods.

Cylburn Arboretum

4915 Greenspring Ave.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-0180

An 1888 Cylburn Mansion houses a nature museum with exhibits and surrounding the area are marked trails, and other gardens.

Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries of the Maryland Institute

Fox Building on Mount Royal Ave., Mount Royal Station, Cathedral St. and Mount Royal Ave.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 225-2280

College of Art featuring rotating exhibits showing the works of students, faculty and national and international artists.

Druid Hill Park

Druid Park Lake Dr., via Pennsylvania Ave., Eutaw Pl. or Mount Royal Terr.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-6106

A 674-acre park is one of the country's largest natural city parks, dating back to 1688.

Enoch Pratt Free Library

400 Cathedral St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-5500

City's principal public library that was built in the 1930s. The library shows permanent displays about Edgar Allan Poe and H.L. Mencken.

Evergreen House

4545 N. Charles St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 516-0341

A 1850s 48-room Italianate mansion containing two generations of disciminating collectors.

Federal Hill Park

Battery St. and Key Hwy.

Baltimore

Maryland

A place of a Civil War fort and it has a view of the harbour and the city skyline.

Fire Museum of the Baltimore Equitable Society

21 N. Eutaw St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 727-1794

It is the oldest corporation of the society which was formed in the late 1700's to be insured buildings against fire.

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

E. Fort Avenue

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 962-4299

Constructed from 1798-1803, it was used during World War II. This is where the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner."

George Peabody Library of the John Hopkins University

17 E. Mount Vernon Pl.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 659-8179

The library has five ornate iron balconies bordering a marble atrium.

Great Blacks in Wax Museum

1601 E. North Ave.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 563-3404

A wax museum commending to African-American history and has more than 100 life-size wax figures portraying people who have made a great impact on Earth.

H.L. Mencken House

1524 Hollins St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-3279

Home of a famous journalist called the "Sage of Baltimore" and this beautiful home still looks the same as it did during the 19th-century.

Hampton National Historic Site

535 Hampton Ln.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 962-0688

This site built in 1783 features a Georgian mansion that represents the height of opulence in the period just after the Revolutionary War.

Homewood House Museum

3400 N. Charles St., Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 516-5589

In 1801 this house was a wedding gift from Charles Carroll Jr.'s father. From 1897 to 1910 Homewood was a boys' school and it has been restored to retain its original appearance.

Jewish Historical Society of Maryland

15 Lloyd St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 732-6400

The society has a wide public collection of 150,000 items related to the 300-year history of Jewry in Maryland.

Johns Hopkins University

140 Garland Hall, off N. Charles St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 516-8171

A small liberal arts university built in 1876 that may well be one of the finest medical schools in the country. The grounds used to be the estate of Charles Carroll Jr.

Lacrosse Hall of Fame Museum

113 W. University Pkwy.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 235-6882

The museum depicts the history of the past decade of champship games through photographs and memorabilia.

Lovely Lane United Methodist Church and Museum

2200 Saint Paul St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 889-1512

Built in 1884 and designed by Stanford White. It's museum displays Methodist Historical materials.

Maryland Historical Society

201 W. Monument St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 685-3750

The society houses the Museum and Library of Maryland History which includes rooms of the 19th-century Enoch Pratt Mansion, the Darnall Young People's Museum and the Radcliff Maritime Museum.

Maryland Science Center IMAX Theater and Davis Planetarium

601 Light St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 685-5225

Has an IMAX theater with a five-story screen which shows a variety of topics. Also they have live science demonstrations and three floors of hands-on exhibits.

Morton K. Blaustein City Life Exhibition Center

800 E. Lombard St., across from the Carroll Mansion

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-3523

It displays the history and character of the city and shows three levels of exhibits giving a neighborhood perspective of life from its earliest days to the present in Baltimore.

Mount Clare Museum House

Carroll Park at Monroe St. and Washington Blvd.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 837--3262

This 1760 Georgian-style house and the only pre-Revolutionary mansion was the home of Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church

10 E. Mount Vernon Place, corner of N. Charles St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 685-5290

This 1874 stone church has an organ with 3,827 pipes and is on the site whereFrancis Scott Key died in 1843.

National Aquarium in Baltimore

501 E. Pratt St., Piers 3 and 4, Baltimore's Inner Harbor

Baltimore

Maryland

(410)576-3800 or (410)625-0720

The aquarium has a seven-story structure displaying varieties of large aquatic exhibits which include a 335,000-gallon Atlantic Coral Reef featuringmore than 500 tropical reef fish, and one of the country's largest oceanariums is the Marine Mammal Pavilion, which includes an educational arcade.

Peale Museum

225 Holiday St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-1149

Built in 1814 by Rembrandt Peale, as the country's first museum building with three floors of exhibits. The third floor horses "The Peales: An American Family of Artists in Baltimore."

Sherwood Gardens

Stratford Rd.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 366-2572

Has 7 acres of azaleas, English boxwoods, flowering cherries, dogwoods, magnolias, wisterias and other plants, surrounding and diffused with 80,000 tulips.

Shot Tower

801 E. Fayette St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 396-5894

A restored 215 feet high brick shaft and is said to be the oldest shot tower in the country, dating from 1828 to 1892 while being used.

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House

844 E. Pratt St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 837-1793

This 1793 home of Mary Pickersgill, the maker of the 15-star and 15-stripe American flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the song "The Star Spangled Banner."

Top of the World

27th floor of the World Trade Center, Inner Harbor

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 837-4515

Presents exhibits applying to Baltimore's sister cities around the world.

Walters Art Gallery

600 N. Charles St.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 547-9000

This domestically-owned gallery displaying more than 25,000 works of art spanning 6,000 years.

War Memorial

Memorial Plaza and Gay and E. Fayette Sts.

Baltimore

Maryland

Greek architecturally-styled memorial which honors Maryland citizens killed in World War I.

Washington Monument

Mount Vernon Sq., jct. W. Pratt and N. Charles Sts.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410)396-7837 or (800)282-6632

A 30-ton statue of George Washington sit atop the monument and a 228-step spiral staircase leads to the top to provide four observation windows which provide a panorama view of the city.

Westminster Hall and Burying Ground

W. Fayette and Greene Sts.

Baltimore

Maryland

(410) 706-2072

The cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church where Edgar Allan Poe, James McHenry and a number of other historical figures are buried.

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