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Akron: All America Bridge - Another "Y" bridge
Akron: Birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous
Akron: Goodyear Airdock - Hangar
Akron: Indian Head
Akron: Inventors Hall of Fame
Akron: Mechanical Barbie and the Band of Many Kens
Akron: Sleep in a Grain Silo
Alliance: Glamorgan Castle
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: Dental Museum
Bainbridge: Shoe Tree
Baltic: Storage Tank Locomotive
Beavercreek: 9/11 Memorial - WTC Beams
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"
Berlin: World's Largest Amish Buggy
Blanchester: World's Largest Horseshoe Crab
Bowling Green: Human Fingers in a Jar
Bowling Green: National Construction Equipment Museum
Bowling Green: World's Largest Bronze Falcon
Brock: Annie Oakley's Grave
Brookville: Andy D-Day and the 2-Headed Calf
Bucyrus: City Mural Bird Killer
Caldwell: First Oil Well in North America
Cambridge: Bob's Big Boy - Transformed to Baker Boy
Cambridge: Hopalong Cassidy Museum
Campbell: Miracle Virgin Mary Aglow
Canton: Frankenstein's Grave
Canton: Muffler Man - Go-kart Track
Carlisle: Futuro - Mating Flying Saucer House
Carrollton: Statue of Liberty in a pond
Centerville: Tall Stack of Books
Cheshire: Toxic Town
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 Phelps Taft, Robot Son Of President Taft
Cincinnati: Cincinnati Police Museum
Cincinnati: Cincinnati's Winged Pigs
Cincinnati: Flying Pig Statue
Cincinnati: Giant Beer Can
Cincinnati: Giant Duct Man
Cincinnati: Giant Indian Sign
Cincinnati: Handsome, Stuffed Hero Police Dog
Cincinnati: Martha - Passenger Pigeon Memorial Hut
Cincinnati: Stallion Statue
Cincinnati: Uniroyal Gal - Gone
Cincinnati: Woolly Mammoths
Circleville: Hereford Bull
Circleville: Pumpkin Water Tower
Circleville: Ted Lewis Museum
Clayton: Sun Dial Grave of Baseball's Jesse Haines
Cleveland Heights: Grave of Only Baseball Player Killed by a Baseball
Cleveland: Art and Soul of Buckeye Park
Cleveland: Birthplace of Superman - Jerry Siegel's House
Cleveland: Birthplace of Superman - Joe Schuster's House
Cleveland: Cancer Survivors Plaza
Cleveland: Church of the Holy Oil Can
Cleveland: Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Cleveland: Cleveland Police Museum
Cleveland: Dittrick Museum of Medical History
Cleveland: Goofy World War II Hero Dog Monument
Cleveland: Home of Superman Plaque
Cleveland: Juno, Talking Transparent Woman
Cleveland: President James Garfield Castle, Other Graves
Cleveland: RataFlora
Cleveland: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
Cleveland: Shoe Tree
Cleveland: Stuffed Balto the Wonder Dog
Cleveland: The - A Christmas Story - House
Cleveland: The Politician - A Toy
Cleveland: Tin Man with American Flag
Cleveland: World's Largest Rubber Stamp
Columbus: (F) A-R-T Sculpture
Columbus: 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant
Columbus: Animal Veterans - Sgt. Fleabite Smith, et al
Columbus: Animatronic Smokey Bear
Columbus: Big Cowboy
Columbus: Cancer Survivors Plaza
Columbus: Dragonbrush
Columbus: Giant Praying Mantis
Columbus: Lighthouse of God Prayer Tower
Columbus: Mythical Creature Statues
Columbus: Ohio Historical Society's Two-Headed Calf
Columbus: Pit of Hell
Columbus: Santa Maria Replica Ship
Columbus: Spinal Column carved from a Tree
Columbus: Topiary French People
Columbus: Unknown Boy Scout Monument
Columbus: World's Largest Gavel
Columbus: World's Largest Mortarboard Graduation Cap
Coolville: Ohio's Smallest Church
Cuyahoga Falls: Doodlebug Train Horror Monument
Cuyahoga Falls: Earnest Angley's Cathedral Buffet and Life of Christ Display
Dayton: Big Twig Maze Sculpture Thing
Dayton: Curiosity Case at Disc Exchange
Dayton: Garden Station Art Park
Dayton: Rooftop Robots
Dayton: SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park - Dog Skeletons
Dayton: Wright Brothers Flyover
Deerfield: Blimp-shaped Building - Vague Recollections
Delaware: Gas Station Birthplace of Rutherford B. Hayes
Delaware: Olentangy Indian Caverns
Dexter City: Johnny Appleseed Memorial
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 Picnic Basket
Dublin: Chief Leatherlips Monument
Dublin: Dancing Rabbits at Ballantrae
Dublin: Field Of Giant Corn Ears
Dublin: Giant Dancing Rabbits
East Liverpool: Death Mask Of Pretty Boy Floyd
East Liverpool: Point of Beginning - U.S. Land Survey
Eastlake: Boulevard of 500 Flags
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 Unusual Grocery Store
Findlay: Bathtub of the USS Maine
Franklin: Poland China Hog Monument

Frazeysburg: World's Largest Apple Basket
Gahanna: Moosesonian - Moose Lodge Museum
Galena: Giant Cottonwood Tree
Gallipolis: Monument to High Water Levels
Gallipolis: Silver Bridge Disaster Eye-Bar
Gallipolis: Yellow Fever Steamer Monument
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: Famous Maid Rite Loose Meat Sandwich
Grove City: Cowboy Statue
Grove City: Cowboy Statue 2
Hamilton: Monument to Hollow Earth Theorist
Hamilton: Statue of George W. Bush: No Child Left Behind
Harrison: Hike Quickly Over Uranium Nuke Plant Waste
Heath: Giant Golf Ball and Tee
Hillard: Early Television Museum
Hinckley: Buzzards Return to Hinckley, Ohio
Hiram: President Garfield Statue Reheaded
Hopedale: Fallen Motorcycle Riders Memorial
Isleta: Ohio's Oldest Structure - Old Stone Fort
Jackson Center: Airstream Factory Tours
Jackson: Apple Water Tower
Jasper: Lil' Cowpoke Guy
Jefferson: Victorian Perambulator Museum
Kenton: Gene Autry Mural
Kent: Black Squirrel Festival
Kent: Homemade Star Wars X-Wing Fighter
Kent: Kent State Massacre Memorials
Kent: Life Size Rhino
Lakeside: Big Chef
Lakewood: Museum of Divine Statues
Lancaster: Mudhouse Mansion - Haunted by Slaves and Slaveowners
Lancaster: President's Half Acre - Stonewall Cemetery
Lima: Noah's Ark, Dillinger's Jail Cell, Things Swallowed
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
Marion: Mysterious Moving Tombstone
Marion: Napoleon's Horse: World's Longest Mane
Marion: Roadside Grave Of A Man Killed By A Tree
Mason: Eiffel Tower Replica
Mc Arthur: God's Garden
McConnelsville: Big Muskie's Bucket
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: Heaven-bound: Giant Jesus Statue
Napoleon: Giant Tomato Soup Can
Nelsonville: World's Largest Personal Cross
New Albany: Globe in Hands Headstone
New Athens: Bucket of Silver Spade
New Bremen: America's Oldest Bicycle - Bicycle Museum of America
New Concord: John Glenn's Boyhood Home
New Richmond: Cardboard Boat Museum, Race
New Straitsville: 117-Year Old Mine Fire
Newark: Statue of America's Youngest Soldier
Newark: World's Largest Basket
Niles: Big Metal Guy
North Canton: UFO Office Building
North Canton: Vacuum Cleaner Museum
Norwalk: Saint's Prayer Cabin and Rosary Walk
Oakwood Village: Texaco Big Friend
Oceola: Grave of Warhorse Frank
Orrville: Towering Cow
Painesville: Flintstone House
Peebles: Plowing Cairn of Peace
Peebles: Serpent Mound
Port Clinton: Walleye Capital of the World
Portsmouth: Flood Wall Murals
Put-in-Bay: Stand Inside World's Largest Geode
Put-in-Bay: World's Third Longest Bar
Ragersville: Skeleton of Jeff Davis in Hangtown
Ray: Leo Petroglyphs
Sabina: Eugene the Mummy
Sandusky: Boy and the Boot Statue
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
Sharon: Shenandoah Crash Site #3
Springfield: Hartman's Rock Garden
Springfield: Madonna of the Trail
Springfield: Statue of the Wright Brothers Lawyer
Steubenville: Majestic Dean Martin Mural
Steubenville: Ohio Valley Steelworker Statue
Steubenville: Pioneer Days Mural
Steubenville: Religious Beginnings Mural
Steubenville: Steam Laundry Mural
Steubenville: Steubenville murals
Sugar Grove: Flight of the Hawk Sculpture Park
Sugarcreek: Rocket Booster Memorial
Sugarcreek: World's Largest Cuckoo Clock
Toledo: Decommissioned Army Rocket
Toledo: Hot Dog Bun Museum
Urbana: World's Largest Loaf of Bread
Urbana: World's Largest Loaf of Bread No. 2
Utopia: Underground Church
Utopia: Utopia
Vermilion: Woollybear Festival
Wadsworth: World's Largest Matchstick
Wapakoneta: Armstrong Air and Space Museum
Wapakoneta: Temple of Tolerance
Warren: Dave "Foo Fighters" Grohl Alley
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 Statue
West Manchester: Cedar Brook Cows
West Union: William Lafferty Memorial Funeral and Carriage Collection
Westerville: Statue to Celebrate City's Role in Establishing Prohibition
Williamsfield: One and Only Presidential Museum
Windsor: World's Largest Mary Statue
Wright Patterson AFB: National Museum of the United States Air Force
Youngstown: Rose Melnick Medical Museum
Zanesville: Giant Circle of Vases
Zanesville: Mudgett's Monument to Ohio
Zanesville: Y Bridge

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 - Closed
Ashtabula: Flying Saucer Gas Station - Gone
Bainbridge: The Seven Caves - Gone
Barberton: Reiter Dairy Cow - Gone
Berlin: World's Largest Wheel of Cheese - Gone
Cambridge: Degenhart Paperweight Museum
Castalia: Blue Hole - The Attraction - Gone
Celina: Chips-N-Giggles - Cow Patties While-U-Eat - Gone
Cincinnati: Ballet Pigs - Gone
Columbus: Kahiki, Polynesian Restaurant - Gone
Columbus: Walk O' Wonders - Gone
Columbus: World's First Wendy's - Gone

Findlay: Ghost Town - Closed
Lima: Muffler Man - Bunyan - Moving
Manchester: Counterfeit House - Closed
Marblehead: Prehistoric Forest and Mystery Hill - Closed
Middletown: LeSourdville Lake, Americana, Fantasy Farm - Closed
Milan: Midget City - Gone
Steubenville: Creegan Animation Factory - Closed
Sugarcreek: Weasels Playing Pool - Gone
West Carrollton: Woody's Market - Over-the-Road Restaurant
Westerville: World's Largest Crystal Ball - Gone
Zanesville: World's Largest Vase - Moved On...

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