If Maryland had a quirky younger sibling who refused to follow the rules but somehow turned out amazing, it would be Takoma Park.
This border town between Maryland and D.C. has been coloring outside the lines since forever, and the picture it’s created is absolutely worth seeing.
Most suburbs aspire to a certain sameness, a comfortable predictability where every house looks vaguely like every other house and the most exciting thing that happens is someone planting petunias instead of pansies.
Takoma Park looked at that model, laughed, and went in completely the opposite direction…