Brunswick Heritage Museum is one of my son's favorite places. The city of Brunswick was essentially built on two things: the C&O Canal and railroads, and both are celebrated here. The first floor is split between the lobby/gift shop of the Brunswick Heritage Museum and and a small interpretive display operated by the National Park Service showcasing the history and influence of the C&O Canal. Behind the desk of the Museum, down the hall, is a small train-themed children's room. The second floor, accessible by either stairs or elevator, represents life in Brunswick from the early 1900s. If you take the stairs, you'll meet a giant wooden cigar store Indian, who represents the building's history as the former headquarters of the local chapter of the fraternal organization Improved Order of Red Men. Finally on the third floor is a huge HO scale model train layout representing the B&O Railroad's Metropolitan Line between Washington DC's Union Station and the Brunswick Rail Yard, which is still active. Guests can get a bird's-eye view of the rail yard from the third floor. Signs above different spots along the display name each location and its real life distance from Union Station, and many of the buildings in the layout still exist along the actual line. As of this writing (February 2017), an extension is under construction on the layout, marking the leg between Brunswick and the Harpers Ferry Tunnel. The one thing that, in my opinion, keeps Brunswick Heritage Museum from earning a 5 star rating is that the third floor tends to get extremely hot during the summer.