AAA travel editors recommend these Baltimore experiences, excerpted from the AAA Travel Guide: Baltimore:

- Wander through pop culture history at Geppi's Entertainment Museum in the Inner Harbor area where you can view toys, characters and icons from yesteryear to the present, ranging from Howdy Doody and Batman to a Lost in Space lunchbox.

- Watch flicks on the largest U.S. movie theater screen at Bengies Drive-In Theatre; a historic landmark that has been serving film buffs for more than 50 years.

- Visit the reliquary of the famous New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth who was one of the first players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and is known for revitalizing the sport during the Roaring 20s at the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum.

- Experience jumping joints, rows of restaurants and sizzling shows at Power Plant Live!—an entertainment complex located in the Inner Harbor district, which is considered one of the top tourist attractions in the Baltimore area.

- Encounter the whimsical world of body art on display or sit back and let the experts create a piece of art on your natural canvas at The Baltimore Tattoo Museum in Fells Point.

- Listen to spooky tales and find out which ghosts haunt and keep the businesses along the harbor company at night in this once boisterous seaport during the Fells Point Ghost Tours.

- Blast off into space at the sci-fi restaurant Rocket to Venus in the Hampden area where diners can chow down on healthy edibles including Sloppy Joes made with tofu in a kitschy 1950s motif.

- Set your course for the National Sailing Hall of Fame & Museum in Annapolis, where the sport's unsung heroes are honored with artifacts, photographs, video presentations and other memorabilia.