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Photo Tour of Federal Hill in Baltimore

by Laureen Miles Brunelli
for About.com

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American Visionary Art Museum

Photo by Dan Meyers
Along Key Highway at the base of the steep Federal Hill Park, a gigantic whirligig marks the American Visionary Art Museum. The museum's eclectic and expanding collection showcases works by self-taught artists. Defining visionary art as "arising from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself," AVAM's pieces tend to be three dimensional, large and made from just about anything.

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