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The Buckeye TrailA 1,444-mile blue-blazed loop around Ohio, with all 26 sections.
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Mounds & Earthworks43 ancient sites, including the Great Serpent Mound and the Newark Earthworks.
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Historic Sites39 places, from Fort Steuben and Zoar to Camp Chase and the Rankin House, from the frontier to the Civil War.
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Road Trips33 drives, from the Lincoln Highway to the Morgan Heritage Trail.
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Lake Erie Beaches20 public beaches from Conneaut to Toledo and the islands, with a map.
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Oddities & Roadside Attractions19 giants, ghosts and folk-art stops, plus a Mothman just over the line.
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Caves & Caverns12 show caverns, recess caves and rock shelters, with a map.
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Waterfalls34 falls from the Cuyahoga Valley to the Hocking Hills, with trail notes and a map.
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117 parks in 7 regions
Oddities & Roadside Attractions
19 stops the tourism brochures skip
Giants, ghosts, folk art and one cryptid just over the line
Ohio is full of places that don't make the official visitor guides: a bucket you can climb into, a basket the size of an office building, a field of concrete corn, a tunnel with a lantern ghost. These are the roadside stops that give the state its character, good for a fun break on a road trip. One is in West Virginia, a short drive across the river.
Things built bigger, stranger or shinier than they had any reason to be.
Big Muskie's Bucket
McConnelsville · Morgan and Noble counties
The bucket of the world's largest dragline, big enough to climb inside.
Machine relic
Longaberger Basket Building
Newark · Licking County
A seven-story office building shaped like a picnic basket, with handles that are heated in winter.
Odd building
World's Largest Apple Basket
Frazeysburg · Muskingum County
A 20-foot basket of bright red apples in the abandoned Longaberger Village.
Giant object
Futuro House
Carlisle · Warren County
A 1960s flying-saucer-shaped house designed by a Finnish architect, one of about 100 built.
Odd building
Tower of VW Beetles
Defiance · Defiance County
Five 1960s Volkswagen Beetles stacked on end in the lot of Pack Rat's Pawn Shop.
Stack of cars
World's Largest Bobblehead
West Bellville · Richland County
A 35-foot Chef Jacques statue behind the Buckeye Express Diner whose head bobbles when the wind blows.
Giant statue
World's Largest Gavel
Columbus · Franklin County
A 12-by-30-by-15-foot steel gavel in a reflecting pool between two judicial buildings.
Giant object
World's Largest Teapot
Chester · Hancock County, West Virginia
A 14-foot teapot on the West Virginia bank of the Ohio River, built from a root-beer barrel that once belonged to the inventor of the banana split.
Giant objectJust over the line
Lux Mundi ("Hug Me Jesus")
Monroe · Warren County
A 52-foot fiberglass Christ with open arms beside I-75, built after lightning burned down its 62-foot predecessor, nicknamed Touchdown Jesus, in 2010.
Giant statue
Folk art and public art
Rock gardens, concrete crops and other places where someone had a vision.
Field of Corn (Cornhenge)
Dublin · Franklin County
109 six-foot ears of concrete corn standing in rows in a Columbus suburb.
Public art
Hartman Rock Garden
Springfield · Clark County
A Depression-era folk-art garden of rock replicas, from Independence Hall to a castle made of 20,000 stones.
Folk art
The Free Stamp
Cleveland · Cuyahoga County
A 35-ton steel rubber stamp reading FREE, tipped on its side in a downtown Cleveland park after the company that commissioned it changed its mind.
Public art
Legends, ghosts and movie sets
Places famous for what people say happened there, or what was filmed there.
Ohio State Reformatory (Shawshank Prison)
Mansfield · Richland County
The castle-like prison where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed, now a museum and paranormal tour site.
Movie set and prison
Moonville Tunnel
Zaleski · Vinton County
An abandoned railroad tunnel in Zaleski State Forest, said to be haunted by a lantern-carrying ghost.
Ghost story
Mothman Museum and Statue, Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant · Mason County, West Virginia
The world's only Mothman museum, across the Ohio River from Gallipolis, beside a 12-foot steel Mothman.
Cryptid museumJust over the line
The Loveland Frogman
Loveland · Clermont, Hamilton and Warren counties
A frog-faced creature reported along the Little Miami River in 1955 and again by a police officer in 1972, now the small city's official mascot.
Cryptid legend
Small wonders
Tiny records and roadside curiosities.
McKinley Street, Bellefontaine
Bellefontaine · Logan County
A street listed as 20 feet long, once billed as the shortest in the world.
Record
The Y-Bridge
Zanesville · Muskingum County
A Y-shaped bridge over the meeting of the Muskingum and Licking rivers, famous for the joke that you can cross it and end up on the same side you started.
Bridge
American Sign Museum
Cincinnati · Hamilton County
A Camp Washington museum built around a walkable street of vintage neon and storefront signs, said to be the country's largest public collection devoted to signage.
Museum
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