DAYTRIPS: 9 Offbeat

9 Offbeat Maryland Towns To Visit In 2026

A glass case at the Mermaid Museum in Berlin holds the museum's most prized artifact, a Cheeto shaped like a mermaid. That detail tells you most of what you need to know about Maryland's stranger side. 

The nine towns ahead lean into the eccentric, the macabre, and the gloriously specific. Renaissance jousts in Crownsville pair with carved decoys in Havre de Grace and ghost stories along the Ellicott City rail line. Some of the traditions started in the 1840s. Others showed up by 2016 and never left.

Berlin

Budget Travel named Berlin "America's Coolest Small Town FINISH READING HERE

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