Places hopemch Wants to Go

The world's first aircraft factory has been hiding inside an automobile plant for almost 80 years.

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

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

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

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

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

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

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

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

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