Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

An office built to look like a giant basket.

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

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

The site of Neil Armstrong's first flight is marked by a full on replica of the moon landers.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

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

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

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

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

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

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

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

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

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

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

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.