This spring, the editors of Esquire set off on a cross-country journey to discover the best of what the United States has to offer. From style to food and drink and other distinctly American oddities, we scoured this land by car from New York to L.A. Here is a sampling of what we encountered on the second leg of our journey, from Philadelphia to Baltimore.

Sure, it has more than its fair share of poverty, and everyone has heard about the infamous murder rate, but this serves only to scare off the meek and keep this hidden east coast gem from becoming another homogenized hipster hangout. When we pulled in, still full from lunch in