Millfield, Ohio
Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6
The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.
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Millfield, Ohio
The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.
Nelsonville, Ohio
This park pays homage to the region's rich industrial history of brick making.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.
Kent, Ohio
Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.
Canton, Ohio
The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.
Marion, Ohio
This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.
Peninsula, Ohio
A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.
Mentor, Ohio
A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.
Cleveland, Ohio
Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.
Dover, Ohio
The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.
Dayton, Ohio
You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.
Zanesville, Ohio
A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.
Cleveland, Ohio
The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.
Cleveland, Ohio
An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Canton, Ohio
Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.
Zanesville, Ohio
One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.
Zanesville, Ohio
A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.
Pleasantville, Pennsylvania
The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.