Baltimore Starts at the Water

The National Aquarium combines its ticketed exhibits with a free outdoor Harbor Wetland opened in 2024. American Visionary Art Museum celebrates self-taught artists in buildings covered with mosaics. Reginald F. Lewis Museum tells four centuries of African American history and culture across Maryland.Baltimore Museum of Art keeps general admission free and holds the largest public collection of Henri Matisse's work, according to the museum. Fort McHenry's walls and surviving history explain how the 1814 defense of Baltimore and an enormous flag inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner.”B&O Railroad Museum begins at Mile One with early locomotives, Mount Clare Station, a vast roundhouse, and an original turntable. Edgar Allan Poe House preserves the 620-square-foot rowhouse where Poe lived and wrote from 1833 to 1835. Admission, reservations, special exhibitions, parking, and train rides are separate from the PopHops Pass.