Places melondave2003 Wants to Go

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

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

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

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

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

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

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

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

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

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

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

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

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.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.