Destinations

The Top of the World observation floor offers a panoramic view of harbor and city, along with multimedia exhibits on the history of Baltimore.

Visit the Star Spangled Banner Flag House, home of widow Mary Pickersgill, who with help from daughter Caroline and a friend, sewed the flag reigning over Fort McHenry, inspiring Frances Scott Key to compose his Star Spangled Banner poem on the back of an envelope.

Some 10,000 creatures, representing 600 species of mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians are at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, in naturalistic habitats such as the Atlantic Coral Reef and the Rain Forest.

Boasting the largest colony of African black-footed penguins in the U.S., The Maryland Zoo also has a Chimpanzee Forest, Leopard Lair and the African Watering Hole, a six-acre open habitat with rhinos, zebras, and gazelles.

Three floors of hands-on exhibits entertain all ages at The Maryland Science Center for the Hubble space telescope, which also accommodates an IMAX theater and the Davis planetarium.

Erected in 1980, the The Holocaust Memorial and Sculpture stands as a reminder of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Europe between 1933 and 1945.

Surrounded by water on three sides and far enough from Baltimore to provide protection without endangering the city, this fortification was renamed "Fort McHenry" after James McHenry, a Federalist politician supporting new fort construction.

The Fire Museum of Maryland is among the largest collections of antique firefighting equipment in the East, museum pieces date to 1806, and include a working fire alarm telegraph system, and other fire memorabilia

Set within Mount Clare Station -- the western hemisphere’s oldest railroad depot and birthplace of the B&O Railroad Museum -- nearly 200 pieces of rail equipment are in and around five historic buildings, including the largest enclosed Roundhouse ever constructed.

Trimper's Rides - Smell the popcorn and cotton candy, see all the dazzling brightly lit rides as they swoosh past to the delight of their passengers.