Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

Constructed from the ruins of a former glass factory, this park incorporates the old with the new.

A storybook church made from a mesmerizing medley of multi-colored stones.

See the nearly two-century-old ruins of pre-railroad America at the former site of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal.

A monument to the “unrecognized dead” of the tragic 1876 train crash.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

The headquarters of a pioneering cast iron and cast aluminum cookware company is in ruins, but still standing.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.

This historic Ohio bridge is adorned with fanciful locks left behind by loving couples.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

The former broadcast site has been reimagined as a museum about the medium.

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

This bridge uses an inverted bowstring truss and is believed to be the only of its kind in the United States.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.

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

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

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

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.

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

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

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.