Ohio

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  As We Are: The Ultimate Selfie Machine

  Columbus, Ohio

  Step into a photo booth, have your face immortalized 14 feet high on a giant human head.

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  Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Wide variety of magick relics collected over many decades. Highlights include a witch's broom and a demon in a box.

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  Fallen Motorcyclist Memorial

  Hopedale, Ohio

  Not fallen as in fell off, fallen as in dead. Remembering many road companions.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

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  National Museum of the United States Air Force

  Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio

  The coolest jets, the biggest bombs, Ham the Astrochimp's underwear, and the leather bomber jacket of Jackie Coogan (TV's Uncle Fester).

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  Toy and Plastic Brick Museum

  Bellaire, Ohio

  Dan Brown filled an old school with his obsessive Lego collection and creations.

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  Andy D-Day and the 2-Headed Calf

  Brookville, Ohio

  In the basement of a local museum is the head of the ultimate freak bull, Andy D-Day, and his sidekick the 2-headed calf.

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  American Sign Museum

  Cincinnati, Ohio

  Tod Swormstedt, sign expert, displays hundreds of examples of everything from delicate gold-painted glass to humongous neon.

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  Christmas Story House

  Cleveland, Ohio

  Exterior set for the holiday movie is a fan pilgrim site and museum.

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  Warther Carvings Museum and Button Collection

  Dover, Ohio

  Museum of Ernest Warther's impossibly perfect locomotive carvings and wife Frieda's collection of 70,000+ buttons.

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  Museum of Divine Statues

  Lakewood, Ohio

  Makeup artist Lou McClung turned an old church into a sanctuary for unwanted Catholic sculptures.

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  Noah's Ark, Dillinger's Jail Cell, Things Swallowed

  Lima, Ohio

  Animated taxidermy and Public Enemy #1 in a unique county museum.

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  Chateau Laroche, Loveland Castle

  Loveland, Ohio

  Harry Andrews was a bachelor and recluse who spent over 50 years building a medieval-style castle in Ohio for his "boy knights."

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  Biblewalk and Living Bible Museum

  Mansfield, Ohio

  It's like walking through a wax Bible -- populated by Hollywood stars in disguise.

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  Elektro, Robot of Mansfield

  Mansfield, Ohio

  Elektro, the barrel-chested "Moto-Man," was the star of the 1939 New York World's Fair, and now a prized exhibit in the Mansfield Memorial Museum.

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  Mansfield Reformatory

  Mansfield, Ohio

  Old prison reborn as location for Hollywood movies and public ghost adventures.

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  Big Muskie's Bucket

  McConnelsville, Ohio

  "Big Muskie," the world's largest earth moving machine, was dismantled in 1999. But you can still visit Big Muskie's humongous bucket!

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  World's Largest Basket

  Newark, Ohio

  Currently for sale -- and a smart company will buy it. No matter how menial your tasks or incompetent your management, work won't seem that bad inside a seven-story-tall basket.

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  World's Tallest Our Lady of Guadalupe

  Windsor, Ohio

  A 50-foot-tall Our Lady of Guadalupe is especially impressive because she stands out in a rural farm field.

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  World's Most Infamous Soap Box Derby Car

  Akron, Ohio

  A cheater car won the national Soap Box Derby, until it was disqualified. One of hundreds displayed at the Soap Box Derby Hall of Fame and Museum.

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  World's Oldest Traffic Light

  Ashville, Ohio

  The world's oldest traffic light -- which still works, and which looks like a streamlined silver football -- is on display in the town museum.

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  Shenandoah Airship Disaster

  Ava, Ohio

  An American military zeppelin, not as well-known but just as accident-prone as the Hindenburg, crashed in eastern Ohio in 1925.

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  Tomb of President McKinley

  Canton, Ohio

  Third in presidential tomb size only behind those of Grant and Lincoln. It took six years to build, and was designed to resemble a giant sword from space.

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  Robot Mr. and Mrs. McKinley

  Canton, Ohio

  Animatronic robots of President William and First Lady Ida McKinley exchange banter as visitors tour a gallery that displays the President's secret step-up stool and a replica of the gun that killed him.