Places brightestiii63 Wants to Go

He’s not from around here.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

Visitors to this Kentucky homestead turned museum are immediately transported back to the Antebellum south.

Now in disrepair, this 19th century station was a stop on of the famed B&O Railroad.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

Circleville is seriously smitten with this giant gourd.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

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

The remains of a massive blast furnace in what was once one of the country's largest iron-producing regions.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

A small wall and marker are all that remain of this historic canal tunnel.

This tower-tomb honors a president who only held office for a little over a month but dedicated his life to his country.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

The childhood home of a Hollywood legend.

This outdoor exhibit features a historic wooden dam once used to help boats navigate the Ohio River.

A larger than life statue of a steelworker keeps watch over a closed steel mill.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

The oldest brick house in the state of Ohio.

One of the few beardless depictions of Lincoln, George Grey Barnard's 1917 statue was denounced by many—including Lincoln's own son.