Ohio Attractions and Oddities
All the oddball Ohio places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten
- Akron: All America Bridge - Another "Y" bridge
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Akron: American Toy Marble Museum - Akron: Birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Akron: Goodyear Airdock - Hangar
- Akron: Mechanical Barbie and the Band of Many Kens
- Akron: Peter Toth Indian Head
- Akron: Tribute to DEVO
- Akron: World's Most Infamous Soap Box Derby Car
- Alliance: America's Official Cat Museum
- Alliance: Glamorgan Castle
- Alliance: House of Skillets
- Alliance: The Troll Hole: Worlds Largest Troll Collection
- Amherst: 24 Hour Roadside Pet Wash
- Ashtabula: Abe Lincoln Head
- Ashtabula: Ashtabula Horror - Train Wreck Disaster
- Ashtabula: Longest Covered Bridge in U.S.
- Ashtabula: Train Wreck Audio Memorial
- Ashtabula: Train Wreck Grave Obelisk
- Ashville: World's Oldest Traffic Light
- Athens: Hot Dog Museum
- Atwater: Ohio's Last Civil War Vet Grave
- Austinburg: Large Rocking Chair
- Ava: Shenandoah Airship Disaster
- Avon: Duct Tape Capital of the World
- Bainbridge: Shoe Tree
- Bainbridge: The Cradle of Dentistry
- Baltic: Storage Tank Locomotive
- Beavercreek: 9/11 Memorial - WTC Beams
- Beavercreek: Beaver Statues
- Bellaire: House that Jack the Donkey built
- Bellaire: Toy and Plastic Brick Museum
- Bellefontaine: Oldest Concrete Street in America
- Bellefontaine: World's Shortest Street
- Bellevue: Seneca Caverns - "Caviest Cave in the USA"
- Bellville: Diner in an Old Train
- Berlin: World's Largest Amish Buggy
- Beverly: Pasture Carousel
- Bidwell: Restaurant Floor Made of Pennies
- Bowling Green: Human Fingers in a Jar
- Bowling Green: National Construction Equipment Museum
- Bowling Green: World's Largest Bronze Falcon
- Bremen: Full Size and Mini Oil Derricks
- Brewster: Swiss Cow
- Bridgeport: Soldier Covering His Ears
- Bridgeport: Ten Commandments and Town Spirit Mural
- Brock: Annie Oakley's Grave
- Brookville: Andy D-Day and the 2-Headed Calf
- Bucyrus: City Mural Bird Killer
- Bucyrus: Liberty Remembers - 3D Mural
- Burbank: Tow Mater Replica
- Byesville: Coal Miner Statue
- Cadiz: Boss Bison Ranch
- Cadiz: Clark Gable Birthplace Museum
- Caldwell: First Oil Well in North America
- Cambridge: Hopalong Cassidy Mural
- Campbell: Miracle Virgin Mary Aglow
- Canton: Frankenstein's Grave
- Canton: Robot Mr. and Mrs. McKinley
- Canton: Site of McKinley's Magical Front Porch
- Canton: Tomb of President McKinley
- Carey: Shrine Of Our Lady Of Consolation
- Carlisle: Futuro - Mating Flying Saucer House
- Centerville: Tall Stack of Books
- Chilo: Grave of Wagon Train Cholera Girl
- Cincinnati (Bevis): Rumpke Landfill Christmas Display
- Cincinnati - Loveland: Smoking Monkey - Vague Recollections
- Cincinnati: American Sign Museum
- Cincinnati: Boy with a Boot Fountain
- Cincinnati: Cemetery Eyeballs that follow you
- Cincinnati: Charlie Taft, Robot Son of President Taft
- Cincinnati: Cincinnati Police Museum
- Cincinnati: Cincinnati's Winged Pigs
- Cincinnati: Flying Pig Statue
- Cincinnati: Fountain of Big Rare Books
- Cincinnati: Giant Beer Can
- Cincinnati: Giant Indian Sign
- Cincinnati: Handsome, Stuffed Hero Police Dog
- Cincinnati: Large Cougar Statue
- Cincinnati: Lucky Cat Museum
- Cincinnati: Martha - Passenger Pigeon Memorial Hut
- Cincinnati: Metrobot
- Cincinnati: Mr. Dynamite: James Brown Mural
- Cincinnati: Mushroom - Beehive House
- Cincinnati: Pancakes and Pigs Sculpture of Goodness
- Cincinnati: SpongeBob SquarePants Tombstones
- Cincinnati: Stallion Statue
- Cincinnati: Triceracopter
- Cincinnati: Union Terminal - Comic Book Hall Of Justice
- Cincinnati: Woolly Mammoths
- Circleville: Hereford Bull
- Circleville: Hitler Graves on Hitler Road
- Circleville: Octagon House
- Circleville: Pumpkin Water Tower
- Circleville: Ted Lewis Museum
- Clayton: Parking Lot Chocolate Box Lid
- Clayton: Sun Dial Grave of Baseball's Jesse Haines
- Cleveland Heights: Grave of Only Baseball Player Killed by a Baseball
- Cleveland Heights: Harvey Pekar Memorial
- Cleveland: Art and Soul of Buckeye Park
- Cleveland: Big Pencil
- Cleveland: Birthplace of Superman - Jerry Siegel's House
- Cleveland: Birthplace of Superman - Joe Shuster's House
- Cleveland: Bombed Thinker
- Cleveland: Cancer Survivors Plaza
- Cleveland: Church of the Holy Oil Can
- Cleveland: Cleveland Cultural Gardens
- Cleveland: Cleveland Police Museum
- Cleveland: Cleveland Venus
- Cleveland: Cocoa, Milk, Sugar
- Cleveland: Firefighters Memorial
- Cleveland: Former Smallest Book in the World
- Cleveland: Grave of Eliot Ness
- Cleveland: Haserot Angel of Death Victorious
- Cleveland: History of Contraception Collection
- Cleveland: Home of Superman Plaque
- Cleveland: House From A Christmas Story
- Cleveland: Jukebox Tombstone of Alan Freed
- Cleveland: Lady Leg Lamp Shrine
- Cleveland: Lincoln Gives Gun to a Slave
- Cleveland: Planet Art: They Have Landed
- Cleveland: President James Garfield Castle, Other Graves
- Cleveland: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
- Cleveland: RotaFlora - Bicycle Rim Flower
- Cleveland: Shoe Tree
- Cleveland: Smoky - World War II Hero Dog Monument
- Cleveland: Street Made of Wood
- Cleveland: Stuffed Balto the Wonder Dog
- Cleveland: The Guardians of Transportation
- Cleveland: The Politician - A Toy
- Cleveland: Tin Man
- Cleveland: Tiny Library Patrons
- Cleveland: Turtle Baby
- Cleveland: USS Cod Submarine
- Cleveland: World's Largest Outdoor Chandelier
- Cleveland: World's Largest Rubber Stamp
- Clifton: Gorge of Lights, Busy Santa
- Clinton: Gold Star Mother and Father Statues
- College Corner: One School in Two States
- Columbus: (F) A-R-T Sculpture
- Columbus: 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant
- Columbus: Animatronic Smokey Bear
- Columbus: Beer Keg Burglar
- Columbus: Big Cowboy
- Columbus: Brown Pet Cemetery: Sgt. Fleabite Smith, et al
- Columbus: Cancer Survivors Plaza
- Columbus: Cardinal Statue
- Columbus: Colorful Buddhist Temple
- Columbus: Deer on a Bridge
- Columbus: Disturbing Scrap Metal Horse
- Columbus: Doorway Arch Faces
- Columbus: Dragonbrush
- Columbus: Gambrinus, King of Beer
- Columbus: Garden of Constants
- Columbus: Giant Boot
- Columbus: Giant Praying Mantis
- Columbus: Jeff the Giant Sloth, Carnivorous Fish
- Columbus: Krema Nut Company - PB & J Sandwiches
- Columbus: Lighthouse of God Prayer Tower
- Columbus: McKinley Loves Ida Statue
- Columbus: Monument to Ohio Teachers
- Columbus: Ohio Historical Society's Two-Headed Calf
- Columbus: Pit of Hell
- Columbus: Rusty Steel Horses
- Columbus: Space Age Parking Lot Booth
- Columbus: Spinal Column Carved From Tree
- Columbus: Statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Columbus: Statue of the Flying Housewife
- Columbus: Sword in the Stone
- Columbus: Topiary French People
- Columbus: Unknown Boy Scout Plaque
- Columbus: World's Largest Gavel
- Convoy: Giant Uncle Sam
- Coolville: Ohio's Smallest Church
- Coshocton: Ride a Horse-Pulled Canal Boat
- Cuyahoga Falls: Doodlebug Train Horror Monument
- Cuyahoga Falls: Earnest Angley's Cathedral Buffet and Life of Christ Display
- Dayton: 1905 Wright Flyer III
- Dayton: Big Apple Made of Flatware
- Dayton: Carousel of Inventions, Wright Bros. Airplane
- Dayton: Crypt of Agnes Moorehead
- Dayton: Curiosity Case at Disc Exchange
- Dayton: Garden Station Art Park
- Dayton: Kennedy's Eternal Flame
- Dayton: Mini-Jet Planes on Light Posts
- Dayton: Rooftop Robots
- Dayton: SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park - Dog Skeletons
- Dayton: World's Largest Claw Machine
- Dayton: Wright Brothers Flyover
- Deerfield: Blimp-shaped Building - Vague Recollections
- Defiance: Tower of VW Bugs
- Delaware: Gas Station Birthplace of Rutherford B. Hayes
- Delaware: Olentangy Indian Caverns
- Delaware: Smiling Face Barn
- Dexter City: Johnny Appleseed Memorial
- Dover: American Gas Pump Heaven Museum
- Dover: Auman Museum of Radio and TV
- Dover: Famous Endings
- Dover: Grave of Confederate Raider Quantrill
- Dover: Replica Head of Confederate Raider Quantrill
- Dover: Warther Carvings Museum and Button Collection
- Dresden: House-Sized Wicker Basket
- Dublin: Chief Leatherlips Monument
- Dublin: Dave Thomas Statue, Wendy's Memorabilia
- Dublin: Field of Giant Corn Cobs
- Dublin: Giant Dancing Rabbits
- Dublin: Watch House and Circle Mound
- Duncan Falls: Sensitive, Pot-Wearing Johnny Appleseed
- East Liverpool: Death Mask Of Pretty Boy Floyd
- East Liverpool: Point of Beginning - U.S. Land Survey
- East Toledo: Greetings from Toledo Mural
- Elmore: Tombstone Derby
- Enon: Adena Indian Burial Mound
- Euclid: Blessed Garden Hose Water
- Euclid: Polka Hall of Fame and Museum
- Fairborn: Foy's Halloween Stores
- Fairfield: Jungle Jim's International Market
- Findlay: Bathtub of the USS Maine
- Findlay: Ghost Town
- Franklin: Poland China Hog Monument
- Frazeysburg: World's Largest Apple Basket
- Fremont: Historic Sandusky Jail and Dungeon
- Gahanna: Moosesonian - Moose Lodge Museum
- Galena: Giant Cottonwood Tree
- Galion: Brownella Cottage
- Gallipolis: Monument to High Water Levels
- Gallipolis: Silver Bridge Disaster Eye-Bar
- Gallipolis: Yellow Fever Steamer Monument
- Geneva-on-the-Lake: Oldest Miniature Golf Course in the U.S.
- Geneva: World's Shortest Covered Bridge
- Georgetown: U.S. Grant, Native Son
- Gettysburg: Foot Print Rock
- Gilboa: Giant Bull
- Glendale: Black Squirrel Town
- Granville: Victoria Woodhull Clock
- Greenville: Annie Oakley Center - Garst Museum
- Greenville: Annie Oakley Memorial Plaza
- Greenville: Loose Meat Drive-Thru and Gum Wall
- Greenville: Tour a Kitchen Mixer Factory
- Grove City: Cowboy Statue
- Grove City: Cowboy Statue 2
- Hamilton: Hollow Earth Monument
- Hamilton: James Ruppert Mass Murder House
- Hamilton: Statue of George W. Bush: No Child Left Behind
- Hamilton: Terrifying Blue Baby
- Harrison: Hike Quickly Over Uranium Nuke Plant Waste
- Haydenville: Round House
- Heath: Giant Golf Ball and Tee
- Hilliard: Early Television Museum
- Hillsboro: World's Largest Horseshoe Crab
- Hinckley: Buzzards Come Back to Hinckley
- Hinckley: Worden's Ledges
- Hiram: President Garfield Statue Reheaded
- Hopedale: Fallen Motorcycle Riders Memorial
- Huntsville: 1964 World's Fair "Peace Through Understanding" Arches
- Isleta: Ohio's Oldest Structure - Old Stone Fort
- Jackson Center: Airstream Factory Tours
- Jackson: Apple Water Tower
- Jackson: Grand Canyon Guy's Little Rock House
- Jasper: Lil' Cowpoke Guy
- Jefferson: Victorian Perambulator Museum
- Kelleys Island: Glacial Grooves
- Kenton: Gene Autry Mural
- Kent: Black Squirrel Festival
- Kent: Homemade Star Wars X-Wing Fighter
- Kent: Life Size Rhino
- Kent: Site of the Kent State Massacre
- LaGrange: World's Largest Eagle's Nest Replica
- Lakeview: Indian and Eagle Totem
- Lakewood: Museum of Divine Statues
- Lancaster: Buckeye Lake Black Bear
- Lancaster: Mudhouse Mansion - Haunted by Slaves and Slaveowners
- Lancaster: Ohio Glass Museum
- Lancaster: President's Half Acre - Stonewall Cemetery
- Leavittsburg: Statue of Liberty Replica
- Lebanon: Ohio's Oldest Hotel - Owned by Senator, Haunted
- Lima: Kewpee Hamburgers
- Lima: Noah's Ark, Dillinger's Jail Cell, Things Swallowed
- Lockington: Abandoned Canal Locks of Lockington
- Logan: Pencil Sharpener Museum
- Logan: World's Largest Washboard and Festival
- Loudonville??: Lamb grave - Vague Recollections
- Loveland: Chateau Laroche, Loveland Castle
- Lyndhurst: Eggshelland
- Mansfield: Biblewalk and Living Bible Museum
- Mansfield: Elektro, Robot of Mansfield
- Mansfield: Mansfield Reformatory
- Marblehead: Handless Jacques
- Marblehead: Train-O-Rama
- Maria Stein: Shrine of the Holy Relics
- Marietta: The Peoples Mortuary Museum
- Marion: Grave of a Warren Harding Mistress
- Marion: Mysterious Moving Tombstone
- Marion: Napoleon's Horse: World's Longest Mane
- Marion: Roadside Grave Of A Man Killed By A Tree
- Marion: Stand in a Steam Shovel Bucket
- Marion: Wyandot Popcorn Museum
- Mason: Eiffel Tower Replica
- Mc Arthur: God's Garden
- McConnelsville: Big Muskie's Bucket
- Medina: Alien Vacation Mini Golf
- Medina: Biggest Year-Round Christmas Museum in the U.S.
- Mesopotamia: Largest Amish Horse and Buggy
- Miamisburg: Miamisburg Burial Mound
- Middleburg Heights: Graveyard at a Movie Theater
- Millbury: Truckers Chapel
- Millersburg: History of Cheesemaking Mural
- Monroe: Anatomically-Correct Horses and Too Many Giraffes
- Monroe: Cowboy Muffler Man
- Monroe: Giant Hug Me Jesus
- Mount Perry: Safety Follows Wisdom
- Mount Vernon: Factory Ruins and Sculpture Park
- Mutual: Ever-Changing Rock Sculptures
- Napoleon: Giant Tomato Soup Can
- Nelsonville: World's Largest Personal Cross
- New Albany: Globe in Hands Headstone
- New Bremen: America's Oldest Bicycle - Bicycle Museum of America
- New Concord: Boyhood Home of Astro-Senator John Glenn
- New Richmond: Cardboard Boat Museum, Race
- New Richmond: Log Ness Monster
- New Rumley: Birthplace of General Custer
- New Straitsville: 117-Year Old Mine Fire
- Newark: Statue of America's Youngest Soldier
- Newark: World's Largest Basket
- Niles: 20-Foot-Tall Steelworker Made of Junk
- Niles: Fake Birthplace Home of William McKinley
- Niles: McKinley Memorial: Statue and Museum
- North Canton: UFO Office Building
- North Canton: Vacuum Cleaner Museum
- North Canton: Wright Flyer Replica
- North Jackson: Big Mary on a Rock Tower
- Norwalk: Saint's Prayer Cabin and Rosary Walk
- Novelty: Giant Geodesic Dome
- Oakwood Village: Big Friend - Waving Giant
- Oceola: Grave of Warhorse Frank
- Ontario: Lonely Putt-Putt Giraffe
- Orrville: Mouse and Cheese Totem Pole
- Orrville: Towering Cow
- Painesville: Flintstone House
- Peebles: Plowing Cairn of Peace
- Peebles: Serpent Mound
- Port Clinton: Fierce Lake Erie Shark
- Port Clinton: Statue of Sea Captain and Young Boy
- Port Clinton: Wylie Walleye at Walleye Capital of the World
- Portsmouth: Flood Wall Murals
- Powell: Columbus Zoo: Sniff a Bear
- Put-In-Bay: World's Most Massive Doric Column
- Put-in-Bay: Big Statue of Atlas
- Put-in-Bay: House That Was a Ship
- Put-in-Bay: Perry's Cave, War of 1812 Mini-Golf
- Put-in-Bay: Stand Inside World's Largest Geode
- Put-in-Bay: Taxidermy Free-for-All
- Put-in-Bay: World's Third Longest Bar
- Ragersville: Skeleton of Jeff Davis in Hangtown
- Ray: Leo Petroglyphs
- Rossford: Robert Wadlow's Shoe
- Sabina: Eugene the Mummy
- Sandusky: Boy and the Boot (indoor)
- Sandusky: Boy and the Boot (outdoor)
- Sandusky: Cholera Cemetery - Mass Grave
- Sandusky: Ghostly Manor Thrill Center
- Sandusky: Merry-Go-Round Museum
- Sandusky: Replica of Sandusky's 1900 Boy with a Boot
- Seville: Giants - Seville Historical Society Museum
- Seville: Married Giants Grave
- Seville: Married Giants Yard Sale
- Sharonville: Mastodon Statue
- Sharon: Shenandoah Crash Site #3
- Springfield: 4-H Founder Statue
- Springfield: Birthplace of 4-H Monument
- Springfield: Hartman's Rock Garden
- Springfield: Madonna of the Trail
- Springfield: Statue of the Wright Brothers Lawyer
- St. Clairsville: Pencil-Necked Pizza Chef
- St. Mary's: Bloody Bridge
- St. Paris: One Bathtub For Entire Hotel
- Steubenville: Majestic Dean Martin Mural
- Steubenville: Ohio Valley Steelworker Statue
- Steubenville: Pioneer Days Mural
- Steubenville: Religious Beginnings Mural
- Steubenville: Steam Laundry Mural
- Steubenville: Steelworkers Mural
- Steubenville: Steubenville murals
- Sugar Grove: Flight of the Hawk Sculpture Park
- Sugarcreek: Cy Young's Tombstone
- Sugarcreek: Rocket Booster Memorial
- Sugarcreek: World's Largest Cuckoo Clock
- Sunbury: Giant, Strange Ronald McDonald
- Sunbury: Ohio Fallen Heroes Memorial
- Tiffin: Big Indian Maiden Head
- Tiffin: Squirrels - Community Art Project
- Toledo: Bridge Lit with LED Rainbow
- Toledo: Decommissioned Army Rocket
- Toledo: MLK Heads On A Chrome Orb
- Toledo: Tony Packo's Cafe - Hot Dog Bun Museum
- Toledo: Tour Former World's Largest Freighter
- Troy: Outdoor Musical Contraption
- Troy: Unity of Man - Eyeball Fountain
- Urbana: Sturgeon Petting and Trout Frenzy
- Urbana: World's Largest Loaf of Bread
- Urbana: World's Largest Loaf of Bread No. 2
- Utopia: Underground Church
- Utopia: Utopia
- Valley City: Drive-Thru Barn
- Vermilion: Woollybear Festival
- Versailles: Air Mail Pilot Sculpture
- Versailles: French Statues of Versailles
- Versailles: Mini Arc de Triomphe
- Wadsworth: Boy and the Boot
- Wadsworth: Porthole Cover from the Maine
- Wadsworth: World's Largest Matchstick
- Wapakoneta: Armstrong Air and Space Museum
- Wapakoneta: The Temple of Tolerance
- Warren: David Grohl Alley, World's Largest Drumsticks
- Warren: Giant Chair of 9/11
- Warren: Neil Armstrong's First Flight
- Waynesville: Cowboy Boot on Hearse
- Wellington: Amish Horse and Buggy ATM
- Wellington: Spirit of '76 Museum
- Wellsville: Boy and the Boot
- West Chester: Ice Cream Cone Building - The Cone
- West Chester: World's Largest Indoor Train Display
- West Lafayette: Unusual Junction - The Price is Right Sign
- West Liberty: Mac-A-Cheek and Mac-O-Chee Castles
- West Union: William Lafferty Memorial Funeral and Carriage Collection
- Whitehall: Lustron House of the Future
- Williamsfield: One and Only Presidential Museum
- Windsor: World's Tallest Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Wright Patterson AFB: Kennedy Assassination Air Force One
- Wright Patterson AFB: National Museum of the United States Air Force
- Xenia: Big Sunglasses
- Yellow Springs: Young's Jersey Dairy
- Youngstown: Rose Melnick Medical Museum
- Zanesville: Amish Buggy Car Dealer
- Zanesville: Cottrill's Sidewalk of Sculptures
- Zanesville: Giant Circle of Vases
- Zanesville: Liquor Store Lady Liberty
- Zanesville: Mudgett's Monument to Ohio
- Zanesville: Pile of War Dead Helmets
- Zanesville: Unique Front Yard Rhino
- Zanesville: Y Bridge
- Zanesville: Zane Grey Display
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Akron: Goodyear World of Rubber Museum
- Akron: Sleep in a Grain Silo
- Ashtabula: Flying Saucer Gas Station
- Bainbridge: The Seven Caves
- Barberton: Reiter Dairy Cow
- Berlin: World's Largest Wheel of Cheese
- Cambridge: Bob's Big Boy - Baker Boy
- Cambridge: Degenhart Paperweight Museum
- Cambridge: Hopalong Cassidy Museum
- Castalia: Blue Hole - The Attraction
- Celina: Chips-N-Giggles - Cow Patties While-U-Eat
- Cincinnati: Ballet Pigs
- Cincinnati: Giant Duct Man
- Cleveland: Juno, Talking Transparent Woman
- Columbus: Kahiki, Polynesian Restaurant
- Columbus: Mythical Creature Statues
- Columbus: Santa Maria Replica Ship (In Storage)
- Columbus: Smiling Car Parts Man
- Columbus: Walk O' Wonders
- Columbus: World's First Wendy's
- Columbus: World's Largest Mortarboard Graduation Cap
- Dayton: Big Twig Maze Sculpture Thing
- Lima: Muffler Man - Bunyan - Moving
- Lima: Squirty Worm
- Logan: Ruins of Stewart's Folly
- Manchester: Counterfeit House
- Marblehead: Prehistoric Forest and Mystery Hill
- Marietta: Marietta Soda Museum
- Middletown: LeSourdville Lake, Americana, Fantasy Farm
- Milan: Midget City
- Monroe: Touchdown Jesus
- New Athens: Bucket of Silver Spade
- Steubenville: Creegan Animation Factory - Closed
- Sugarcreek: Weasels Playing Pool
- West Carrollton: Woody's Market - Over-the-Road Restaurant
- Westerville: World's Largest Crystal Ball
- Zanesville: World's Largest Vase
