Invisible City
See the smallest alley, taste the strangest soup, visit the secret societies, hear the missing music, and meet the most powerful man you've never heard of.
by Urbanite Staff
Spend any length of time in Baltimore and you will happen upon the uncanny—stranger-than-fiction characters, hidden places, scraps of half-forgotten lore too flat-out odd to live anywhere else. From Edgar Allan Poe's still-puzzling last hours to the exact formula for the bittersweet chocolate sauce once served at now-vanished Maison Marconi, there are mysteries here unlikely ever to be laid to rest. Instead, they accrete over the generations, coral-reef style, as new curiosities pile up upon the old. To take a measure of the unseen forces at work in our midst, we asked a handful of local scribes to peer down into the city that lurks just beneath the surface. Here's what they saw.
Readers' Favorites
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Baltimore Pho Restaurant
- Hollins Park 1114 Hollins St
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410-752-4756
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(based on 2 user reviews)
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Robert McClintock
- Fells Point 1809 Thames St
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410-814-2800
- robertmcclintock.com
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(based on 1 user review)
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Baltimore County Community College
- Baltimore County 209 Rossville Blvd 1st Floor
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443-840-2999
- www.ccbcmd.edu/
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(based on 1 user review)
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Golden West Cafe
- Hampden 1105 W 36th St
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410-889-8891
- www.goldenwestcafe.com/
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(based on 1 user review)
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Herring Run Watershed Center
- Belair/Edison 3545 Belair Road
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410-254-1577
- baywatersheds.org/events/?event_id=5
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(based on 1 user review)
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