Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, one of the most photogenic sights in the city, has been one of the major east coast seaports for over three centuries. This marvelous skyline view captures today’s Baltimore, still a bustling seafaring town. The Chesapeake Bay city is in a midst of a cultural renaissance, earning a top-ten billing of up-and-coming summer tourist destinations.
   Visitors enjoy the Inner Harbor’s well appointed hotels, fine restaurants and specialty shops, all within walking distance. Water taxis, available with lunch and dinner cruises, are the perfect way to catch all the Inner Harbor attractions and the historic Fort McHenry. The Baltimore Maritime Museum offers more of Maryland’s treasures of the past, including tours of the USS Torsk, the USCGC Taney, and the lightship Chesapeake. The USS Constellation recalls some of the most intriguing tales of early American sea history. The Baltimore Aquarium and Maryland Science and Port Discovery Children’s Museum offer up plenty of family fare entertainment. Within a few city blocks, the National Aquarium puts on a show with 16,000 sea creatures of the deep, and the Maryland science Center will surround you with an IMAX experience. Take in the entire city from the top of the world, located on the five-sided World Trade Center’s observation level.

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