A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

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

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

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

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

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.