Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

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

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

One of Cincinnati's greatest fighters once trained at a now defunct gym in this Over-The-Rhine neighborhood.

This pair of eccentric Ohio castles were built by a pair of brothers who wanted to bring a bit of class to the Ohio wilderness.

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

This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

The narrowest street in Canada was once a spot for dastardly doings, now a historic piece of Chinatown.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A single handprint, which, according to Ohio State University legend, cannot be scrubbed off.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

This humble star-gazing center touts itself as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.