places to go

MARYLAND
*Adventure Park USA
*Agricultural History Farm Park
*American Visionary Art Museum
*Anita C. Leight Estuary Center
*Annapolis Maritime Museum
*Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park
*Antietam Battlefield
*Assateague Island
*Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum
*Baugher's Orchard
*B&O Railroad Museum
*BWI airplane observatory playground
*Baltimore Maritime Museum
*Baltimore Museum of Art
*Baltimore Museum of Industry
*Baltimore Streetcar Museum
*Battle Creek Cypress Swamp
*Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
*Bladensburg park ferry ride
*Book Escape Bookstore in Baltimore
*Bowie Baysocks Game
*Brighton Azalea Gardens
*Cafe Hon in Baltimore
*Calvert Cliffs state park
*Calvert Marine Museum
*Carroll County Farm Museum
*Catoctin Mountain
*Catoctin Mountain Wildlife Park
*Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
*Chesapeake Beach Water Park
*Chesapeake Children's Museum
*Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
*Chesapeake exploration Center
*Clara Barton National Historic Site
*College Park Aviation Museum
*Cryptologic Museum
*Crystal Grottoes Caverns
*Cunningham Falls State
*Cunningham Falls State Park Maple Syrup Making Demonstrations
*Deep Creek Lake
*Discovery Station in Hagerstown
*Downs Park
*Elk Neck State Park
*Frederick Keys Game
*Fire Museum of Maryland
*Flag House in Baltimore
*Fort Foote Park
*Fort Fredrick
*Fort McHenry
*Fort Smallwood Park
*Fort Washington Park
*Glen Echo Park
*Great Falls Park (9/1/11)
*Greenbriar State Park
*Gunpowder Falls State Park
*Hammond-Harwood House
*Hampton National Historic Site
*Harmony Hall
*Historic London Town
*Irvine Nature Center
*Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
*Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary
*Ladew Gardens
*Lake Waterford Park
*Lexington Market
*Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
*Kinder Farm Park
*Marshy Point Nature Center
*Maryland Renaissance Festival
*Maryland Science Center
*Maryland State Fair
*Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
*Meadowside Nature Center
*Meadowood Regional Park
*Medieval Times
*Monacacy Battlefield
*Morris meadows recreation farm
*Mount Clare Museum House
*Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore
*National Capital Trolley Museum
*North Beach
*North Run Farm
*Oakley Cabin
*Oregon Ridge Beach
*Owens Creek Campground
*Oxon Hill Farm (10/10)
*Patuxent Wildlife Refuge
*Pickering Creek Audubon Center
*Piney Point Lighthouse Museum
*Piney Run Park
*Plumpton Park Zoo
*Port Discovery Children's Museum
*Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis
*Red Canoe Children's Bookstore in Baltimore
*Rocky Gap State Park
*Rocky Point Beach
*Roger G. Taney House in Frederick
*Rose Hill Manor Park
*Sandy Point State Park
*Scenic Western Maryland Railroad
*See a show at Ram's Head
*See a show at the Hippodrome in Baltimore
*Sharp's Farm
*Sheep and Wool Festival
*South Mountain Creamery
*SERC - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
*Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards
*St. Clement's Island
*St. Clement's Island Museum
*St. Mary's City
*Surratt House Museum
*Swallow Falls State Park
*Tridelphia Ridge Farm
*Underground Railroad Experience
*Walkersville Southern Railroad
*Walters Art Gallery
*William Paca House
*Wye Grist Mill

PENNSYLVANIA
*Codorus State park
*Crayola Factory
*Dutch Wonderland
*Explore and More Gettysburg Children's Museum
*Fort Necessity
*Gettysburg
*Hands on House Children's Museum of Lancaster
*Hershey
*Hershey Park Amusement Park
*Independence Hall/Liberty Bell
*Hopewell Furnace
*Knobels
*Lake Tobias Wildlife Park
*Landis Valley Living History Museum
*Longwood Gardens
*Maize Quest
*National Canal Museum
*Number 9 Coal Mine
*Philadelphia
*Please Touch Children's Museum in Philly
*Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train
*Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area
*Rocky Stairs
*Schuylkill River National Heritage Area
*Sesame Place
*Strasburg
*Valley Forge National Park

DC
*Air and Space Smithsonian (7/09, 8/10, 10/10, 12/10, 1/11)
*American History Smithsonian (7/09, 10/10)
*Anacostia Park
*Arlington National Cemetery ('98, 7/09)
*Awakening statue
*Bureau of Engraving and Printing
*Capital Tour ('98?)
*Cherry Blossom Festival (3/11)
*C & O Canal boat ride in Georgetown (6/09)
*Discovery Creek Children's Museum
*FDR Memorial
*Ford's Theater
*Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
*Gravely Point (7/09, 9/10)*Jefferson Memorial
*Korean Memorial ('98)
*Lincoln Memorial (7/09)
*Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
*Monticello
*National Arboretum (4/11)
*National Archives 
*National Book Festival (9/10)
*National Cathedral (12/10)
*National Colonial Farm
*National Gallery of Art (10/10)
*National Geographic Museum
*National Harbor
*National Museum of the American Indian (12/10)
*National Zoo (7/09, 2/11)
*Old Post Office Pavilion Tower
*Politics and Prose Bookstore
*Rock Creek Park Planetarium
*Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
*Spy Museum
*Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Island (3/11)
*US Botanic Garden (12/10)
*US Supreme Court tour
*WWII Memorial
*Washington Monument, go to the top
*White House tour
*White House Easter Egg Roll

VIRGINIA
*Busch Gardens
*Charlottesville ('02)
*Children's Museum of Richmond
*Claude Moore Colonial farm
*Clemyjontri Playground
*Cox Farms (10/10)
*George Washington Birthplace National Monument
*Great Falls Park ('03)
*Henricus Historical Park
*Jamestown
*Jamestown Plantation
*Luray Caverns
*Massanutten
*Manassass Battlefield (11/10)
*Mount Vernon ('02, 12/10)
*Prince William Forest Park
*Science Museum of Virginia
*See a show at the Birchmere
*VA Air and Space museum
*Virginia Safari Park
*Westmoreland State Park
*Williamsburg
*Wolf Lodge
*Yorktown Battlefield

DELAWARE
*Killens Pond Water Park
*Winterthur

WEST VIRGINIA:
*National Coal Heritage Area
*Harpers Ferry 

NORTH CAROLINA
*Cape Hatteras National Seashore 
*Cape Lookout National Seashore
*Fort Fisher
*Fort Raleigh
*Kitty Hawk/Wright Brothers National Monument
*Moores Creek National Battlefield
*Point Lookout National Park
*Rocky Mount Children's Museum
*Shackleford Island
*USS North Carolina
*Wilmington

NEW JERSEY
*George Washington Headquarters in Morristown
*Jockey Hollow Visitor's Center
*Edison National Historic Site

NEW YORK
*Bannerman Island
*Bear Mountain State Park
*Bear Mountain State Park Zoo
*Brooklyn Children's Museum
*Catskill State Park
*Central Park Zoo
*Clove Furnace
*Constitution Island
*Eleanor Roosevelt National NHS
*Eisenhower Hall
*Ellis Island
*Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor • New York
*Fort Montgomery Museum
*Fort Stanwix
*Historic Hudson Valley Estate tour
*Hudson Highlands Nature Museum
*Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
*Hyde Park
*Kingston Trolley Museum
*Mid-Hudson Children's Museum
*Museum Village
*Palmyra pageant
*Sagamore Hill National Historic site
*Splashdown Park
*St. Paul's church
*Statue of Liberty
*Vanderbilt Mansion NHS
*West Point
*West Point game
*Yonkers

MASSACHUSETTS
*Boston Children's Museum
*Boston Science Museum
*Boston Tea Party Ship
*Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
*Essex National Heritage Area
*Heifer’s Overlook Farm
*Minute Man National Historic Park
*Old North Church
*Plymouth Plantation
*Springfield Armory

Credit due to Corinne Edwards for this fabulous list!