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Christopher Roehl

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Lots of beaver activity across the preserve including some visible from the trail. [Baby beaver swimming with a stick, April, 2024]

Hamilton, Ohio

Fernald Preserve

A former nuclear facility during the Cold War turned nature preserve.

Entertrainment Junction
Permanently Closed

West Chester, Ohio

EnterTrainment Junction

A 25,000-square-foot display with dozens of model trains in intricate miniature worlds.

Image from gravel parking spot

Napoleon, Ohio

World’s Largest Tomato Soup Can

The famous red-and-white Campbell's Soup label beckons hungry passersby in Ohio.

Twinings tea shop on the Strand.

London, England

Twinings Tea Shop

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The King’s Arms Tavern

Williamsburg, Virginia

The King’s Arms Tavern

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

Welcome to Dadsville

West Alexandria, Ohio

Dadsville

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

Tower Bridge Chimney.

London, England

Tower Bridge Chimney

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.

The map.

Chicago, Illinois

300 South Wacker Drive

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

Biltmore McDonald's
Permanently Closed

Asheville, North Carolina

Biltmore McDonald's

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

Hillsboro Horseshoe Crab

Hillsboro, Ohio

World's Largest Horseshoe Crab

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

Dolly Parton Statue

Sevierville, Tennessee

Dolly Parton Statue

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

Exterior stairstep of Columbus Limestone with a high-spired gastropod.

Columbus, Ohio

Ohio Statehouse Fossils

The walls of the statehouse tell the story of Ohio’s prehistoric past.

A towering maypole surrounded by trees

Oregon, Ohio

Der Maibaum (The Maypole)

A focal point for the German American Festival-Society symbolizing the "Spirit of Unity' and fellowship for the Toledo area.

Done

Circleville, Ohio

World's Largest Pumpkin Water Tower

Circleville is seriously smitten with this giant gourd.

The diorama pit in Big Bone Lick State Historic Site depicts a scene of the mammoths, mastodons, and bison that frequented the area thousands of years ago.

Union, Kentucky

Diorama Pit at Big Bone Lick State Historic Site

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

The Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption is Northern Kentucky’s very own Notre Dame.

Covington, Kentucky

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption

Northern Kentucky’s very own Notre Dame showcases intricate stained glass and the bones of saints.

Clive

Covington, Kentucky

Clive

He’s not from around here.

Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum

Corbin, Kentucky

Harland Sanders Cafe and Museum

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ottawa Street North, street sign.

Hamilton, Ontario

Tim Hortons No. 1

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

Fontana Boathouse

Buffalo, New York

Fontana Boathouse

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

Statue of Abraham Lincoln at Lytle Park

Cincinnati, Ohio

Statue of Abraham Lincoln at Lytle Park

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

Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal Tunnel

Cleves, Ohio

Cincinnati and Whitewater Canal Tunnel

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

Mansion Exterior

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Pabst Mansion

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A restored Wright house on the Burnham Block.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Frank Lloyd Wright's Burnham Block

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

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