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Worden Sculpture.

Hinckley, Ohio

Worden's Ledges

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

Ceremonial masks from the Congo.

Mount Clemens, Michigan

The Anatomy of Death Museum

A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.

Recycled Cascade Park rollercoasters.

New Castle, Pennsylvania

Cascade Park

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

Inside one of the intact kilns.

Nelsonville, Ohio

Nelsonville Brick Park

This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.

Ohio State Reformatory.

Mansfield, Ohio

Ohio State Reformatory

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

This decaying structure once held the powerhouse for old Lock No. 19.

Washington, West Virginia

Abandoned Lock No. 19

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

The ruins of Wehrum.

Vintondale, Pennsylvania

Wehrum

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

Archive of the Afterlife

Cameron, West Virginia

Archive of the Afterlife

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

ASM International Materials Park

Novelty, Ohio

ASM International Materials Park

Known as "The Dome" this is the world's largest open air geodesic dome.

An 1829 hotel and tavern built by the Society of Separatists to serve travelers on the Ohio and Erie Canal

Zoar, Ohio

Historic Zoar Village

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

Moonville Tunnel

McArthur, Ohio

Moonville Tunnel

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

Back end of the hospital (2022)
Permanently Closed

Louisville, Ohio

Molly Stark Sanatorium

This former tuberculosis treatment facility now stands at the center of a public park.

Warner and Swasey Observatory

East Cleveland, Ohio

Warner and Swasey Observatory

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Monarch Wine Company Ruins, June 2016

Kelleys Island, Ohio

Kelleys Island Winery Ruins

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

GE Chandelier

Cleveland, Ohio

GE Chandelier

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

Glacial Grooves

Kelleys Island, Ohio

Kelley's Island Glacial Grooves

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

The Center of the World.

Leavittsburg, Ohio

Center of the World, Ohio

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

Bullet Hole

Kent, Ohio

Site of Kent State Shootings

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

A map at the Visitors Center lays out student protests across the USA in 1970.

Kent, Ohio

Kent State May 4 Visitors Center

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

Squire's Castle in 2006

Willoughby Hills, Ohio

Squire's Castle

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

The End of the World
Permanently Closed

Peninsula, Ohio

Helltown, Ohio

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The Hillandale Bridge from the ravine.

Euclid, Ohio

Hillandale Bridge

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

"The Angel of Death Victorious" also known as the "Haserot Angel" in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, 10/15/2021

Cleveland, Ohio

The Haserot Angel

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Up close image of the giant stamp

Cleveland, Ohio

World's Largest Rubber Stamp

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

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