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The museum charts black history in Alexandria from the 1800s to today.

Headquartered in the restored McNasby building, the site of the region's last oyster-packing plant, the museum offers exhibits and programs about local maritime history and the Chesapeake Bay.

Formed to preserve and present the area's history, the society displays its 350,000 artifacts on a rotating basis.

Located "a long fly ball" from Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the house where the Bambino was born in 1895 (along with three adjacent rowhouses) has been preserved as a shrine.

The last remnant of what was once an extensive freight and passenger depot, the museum is a gorgeous but small jewel of history and preservation.

This collection of sites includes the only ship to survive the attack on Pearl Harbor and the last submarine involved in an attack during World War II.

A converted cannery in one of the East Coast's great industrial cities demonstrates how Baltimoreans worked during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Maryland's official repository of African American heritage, the museum opens its doors for exhibitions, lectures, poetry readings and jazz concerts.

The building was one of the most renowned racing stables during the early 1900s.

Well-presented exhibits, many of them interactive, bring aspects of the Chesapeake Bay's history and economy to life.