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Hartman Rock Garden
Springfield, Ohio
Ben Hartman's 1930s backyard project of sculptures and found-stone buildings run amok.
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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.
BibleWalk and Living Bible Museum
Mansfield, Ohio
It's like walking through a wax Bible -- populated by Hollywood stars in disguise.
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).
Toy and Plastic Brick Museum
Bellaire, Ohio
Dan Brown filled an old school with his obsessive Lego collection and creations.
Human Fingers in a Jar
Bowling Green, Ohio
Grisly evidence and other murderabilia at the Wood County Historical Museum.
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.
Christmas Story House
Cleveland, Ohio
Exterior set for the holiday movie is a fan pilgrim site and museum.
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.
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.
Field of Giant Corn Cobs
Dublin, Ohio
A weird field of 109 six-foot-tall tall ears of concrete corn, in a suburb of Columbus.
Sanctuary Museum
Lakewood, Ohio
Makeup artist Lou McClung turned an old church into a sanctuary for unwanted Catholic sculptures.
Noah's Ark, Dillinger's Jail Cell, Things Swallowed
Lima, Ohio
Animated taxidermy and Public Enemy #1 in a unique county museum.
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.
Mansfield Reformatory: Shawshank Redemption Prison
Mansfield, Ohio
Opened in 1896, used as the filming location for "The Shawshank Redemption," now a tourist attraction.
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!
Castle Noel
Medina, Ohio
The largest and craziest indoor Christmas attraction in the USA. Every visitor gets to ride the slide down Santa Mountain from "A Christmas Story."
World's Largest Basket
Newark, Ohio
Custom-built in 1997 to resemble a giant woven basket for Longaberger corporate HQ. Sold to developer Dec. 2017.
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.
World's Most Infamous Soap Box Derby Car
Akron, Ohio
Infamous cheater car that won the Soap Box Derby. One of hundreds displayed at the Soap Box Derby Hall of Fame and Museum.
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- Akron: World's Most Infamous Soap Box Derby Car
- Alliance: The Troll Hole: Worlds Largest Troll Collection [tips]
- Ashville: World's Oldest Traffic Light
- Athens: Piece of Hitler's Urinal [tips]
- Ava: Shenandoah Airship Disaster
- Bellaire: Toy and Plastic Brick Museum
- Bowling Green: Human Fingers in a Jar
- Bowling Green: National Construction Equipment Museum [tips]
- Brookville: Andy D-Day and the 2-Headed Calf
- Bucyrus: Liberty Remembers - 3D Mural [tips]
- Cadiz: Boss Bison Ranch [tips]
- Canton: Tomb of President McKinley
- Canton: Robot Mr. and Mrs. McKinley
- Carlisle: Futuro - Mating Flying Saucer House [tips]
- Cincinnati: Martha - Passenger Pigeon Memorial Hut
- Cincinnati: American Sign Museum
- Cincinnati: Greater Cincinnati Police Museum
- Cincinnati: Charlie Taft, Robot Son of President Taft
- Cincinnati: Mushroom-Beehive House [tips]
- Cincinnati: SpongeBob SquarePants Tombstones [tips]
- Cincinnati: Lucky Cat Museum [tips]
- Cincinnati: Triceracopter
- Cleveland: The Politician: A Toy
- Cleveland: World's Largest Rubber Stamp
- Cleveland: Stuffed Balto the Wonder Dog [tips]
- Cleveland: Christmas Story House
- Cleveland: Cleveland Police Museum [tips]
- Cleveland: President James Garfield Castle, Other Graves [tips]
- Cleveland: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum [tips]
- Cleveland: Smoky - World War II Hero Dog Monument
- Cleveland: History of Contraception Collection [tips]
- Cleveland: USS Cod Submarine [tips]
- Cleveland: Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick
- Cleveland: Giant Paddle Ball [tips]
- Cleveland: Judy's Crawling Hand [tips]
- Clifton: Gorge of Lights, Busy Santa [tips]
- Columbus: Topiary French People
- Columbus: Statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger [tips]
- Columbus: Statue of the Flying Housewife [tips]
- Columbus: As We Are: The Ultimate Selfie Machine
- Cuyahoga Falls: Doodlebug Train Horror Monument [tips]
- Dayton: Kennedy's Eternal Flame
- Dayton: Carousel of Inventions, Wright Bros. 1905 Airplane [tips]
- Defiance: Tower of VW Bugs [tips]
- Delaware: Olentangy Indian Caverns [tips]
- Dover: Warther Carvings Museum and Button Collection
- Dover: Replica Head of Confederate Raider Quantrill
- Dover: Auman Museum of Radio and TV
- Dover: Famous Endings [tips]
- Dublin: Field of Giant Corn Cobs
- Dublin: Chief Leatherlips Monument
- Dublin: Giant Dancing Rabbits [tips]
- Dublin: Dave Thomas Statue, Wendy's Memorabilia [tips]
- Elmore: Tombstone Derby [tips]
- Fairfield: Jungle Jim's International Market
- Fairfield: Sea Monster [tips]
- Findlay: Bathtub of the USS Maine
- Fremont: Historic Sandusky Jail and Dungeon [tips]
- Geneva-on-the-Lake: Oldest Miniature Golf Course in the U.S. [tips]
- Hamilton: Hollow Earth Monument
- Hamilton: Statue of George W. Bush: No Child Left Behind
- Hanoverton: Death Mask of Pretty Boy Floyd [tips]
- Hilliard: Early Television Museum [tips]
- Hillsboro: World's Largest Horseshoe Crab
- Hinckley: Worden's Ledges [tips]
- Jackson Center: Airstream Factory Tours [tips]
- Kent: Site of the Kent State Massacre
- Lakewood: Sanctuary Museum
- Leavittsburg: Center of the World [tips]
- Lima: Noah's Ark, Dillinger's Jail Cell, Things Swallowed
- Logan: Pencil Sharpener Museum [tips]
- Loveland: Chateau Laroche, Loveland Castle
- Mansfield: BibleWalk and Living Bible Museum
- Mansfield: Elektro, Robot of Mansfield
- Mansfield: Mansfield Reformatory: Shawshank Redemption Prison
- Marblehead: Handless Jacques [tips]
- Maria Stein: Shrine of the Holy Relics
- Marion: Roadside Grave Of A Man Killed By A Tree
- Marion: Napoleon's Horse: World's Longest Mane
- McConnelsville: Big Muskie's Bucket
- Medina: Castle Noel
- Medina: Alien Vacation Mini Golf [tips]
- Mesopotamia: Largest Amish Horse and Buggy [tips]
- Miamisburg: Ride in a 1910 Airplane [tips]
- Millersburg: History of Cheesemaking Mural
- Monroe: Cowboy Muffler Man [tips]
- Mount Vernon: Factory Ruins and Sculpture Park [tips]
- New Richmond: Cardboard Boat Museum, Race
- Newark: World's Largest Basket
- Niles: McKinley Memorial: Statue and Museum
- North Canton: Vacuum Cleaner Museum [tips]
- North Kingsville: Eat Pizza In a Covered Bridge [tips]
- Oakwood Village: Waving Giant (Big Friend variant)
- Port Washington: Cy Young's Tombstone [tips]
- Put-in-Bay: Perry's Cave, War of 1812 Mini-Golf
- Put-in-Bay: Stand Inside World's Largest Geode
- Put-In-Bay: World's Most Massive Doric Column [tips]
- Ragersville: Skeleton of Jeff Davis in Hangtown
- Springfield: Hartman Rock Garden
- Steubenville: Majestic Dean Martin Mural [tips]
- Sugarcreek: World's Largest Cuckoo Clock
- Sunbury: Ohio Fallen Heroes Memorial [tips]
- Sunbury: Giant, Strange Ronald McDonald [tips]
- Toledo: Tony Packo's Cafe - Hot Dog Bun Museum [tips]
- Toledo: Tour Former World's Largest Freighter [tips]
- Wapakoneta: Armstrong Air and Space Museum
- Wapakoneta: The Temple of Tolerance
- Warren: Neil Armstrong's First Flight
- Warren: David Grohl Alley, World's Largest Drumsticks
- Warren: Giant Chair of 9/11
- West Union: William Lafferty Memorial Funeral and Carriage Collection [tips]
- Windsor: World's Tallest Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Wright Patterson AFB: National Museum of the United States Air Force
- Wright Patterson AFB: Kennedy Assassination Air Force One
- Zanesville: Cottrill's Sidewalk of Sculptures [tips]
- Zanesville: Pile of War Dead Helmets [tips]
