With Halloween on the horizon, a guide to some of our city’s scariest sites.
Baltimore can be a pretty creepy town.
Neighborhoods like Fells Point and Mt. Vernon have hundreds of years of colorful history ripe for ghosts and other apparitions. Edgar Allan Poe gathered inspiration for his morbid tales from these streets. And the remnants of the city's once-bustling industrial core have been left to decay and descend into eeriness.
With Halloween just...
Four fall forays in search of pie, comfort food, and splendid scenery.
You're rambling down a country road admiring the fiery-hued foliage when it hits you: You're hungry and only one food will do—pie, perhaps the quintessential fall fare. A warm wedge of apple à la mode would fit the bill nicely, or a slice of lofty lemon meringue. Chances are the next small town will have just the dining spot you're looking for: large parking lot (promising), lots of cars with...
Skip the ocean and head to Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland for family fun.
We love the beach. But sometimes, when we're sitting in traffic on the Bay Bridge, contemplating higher tolls and the mob scene in Ocean City, we begin to wonder: Isn't there another great vacation spot nearby?
As it turns out, there is. From Baltimore, just point your car in the opposite direction of the Eastern Shore, drive the same three hours, and you'll end up at Deep Creek Lake, a...
30 Fun Things To Do When The Sun Sets
The beach towels are draped on the deck. There's a damp ring of sand in the shower. Evening has fallen, and while the sunlight may be finished until tomorrow, you're still radiant and ready to conquer the "coolest" part of the day—the beach after dark.
A seaside vacation is not all about sun and surf. It's cocktails at sunset. Bonfires by the ocean. The boardwalk in all its bright,...
The Tennessee capital lives up to its “Music City” moniker—and more.
Nashville is America’s premiere music destination. Sure, other cities have venerable musical traditions of their own, but you could make the argument that none offers the breadth and depth of Nashville’s. Music is the city’s lifeblood, its cultural and economic engine.
It is impossible to walk more than a block without passing a concert venue, a busker, a record store, a recording...
You won't go hungry in Staunton, VA, with its locally sourced restaurants, markets, and nearby farm tours.
Who knew that Staunton, a tiny city in Virginia, is one of the country's best-kept foodie secrets? But that probably won't be the case for long. Locavore-loving epicureans are taking notice of this agrarian region in the Shenandoah Valley.
Just five years ago, eminent New York City chef Ian Boden became captivated with Staunton (pronounced STAN-ton) and its multi-generational green...
Thriller indoor pools let you get wet and wild whatever the weather.
At the Great Wolf water park in the Poconos, water falls like a summer shower from above, gushes from a tipped bucket nearby, and spills in random cascades from a 1,000-gallon barrel at the top of the Fort Mackenzie play area, a brightly colored, four-story “tree house” of ramps and stairs with plenty of opportunities to get wet.
Altogether about 25,000 gallons per minute slosh down...
Fall birdwatching is fun, but so are shopping, dining, and B&Bs in nearby towns.
A forest of oaks, maples, and black gum trees unfurled below us, forming a plush autumn carpet tinged with rust, gold, and yellow. Through it twined the mighty River of Rocks, an arid boulder path paved during the ice age. Given the splendid panorama stretched out at our boots, you’d suppose several dozen hikers lingering on top of a rocky overlook on Pennsylvania’s Hawk Mountain would be...
Local B&Bs welcome visitors with all the comforts of home—and more.
Every B&B has a story, or, at least, its owner does. “It’s a personality-driven industry,” says Joe Lespier, president of the Maryland Bed & Breakfast Association and owner of The Annapolis Inn with his partner Alex DeVivo. Lespier, a retired human resources director, jokes, “I do far more human resources here than I ever did in my career.”
Indeed, as we searched for the...
The trendy NYC borough lures visitors for a weekend fling.
I grew up going to Brooklyn. Every few months, we would pile into the station wagon and make the drive from Maryland—craning our necks on the Verrazano Bridge to try and see the Statue of Liberty and hoping we didn't lose a tire on the pothole-pitted Belt Parkway—to visit my four grandparents. One set was in Sheepshead Bay, another in Canarsie—both living in the same apartments where my...
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