Places phildzielski Wants to Go

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

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.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

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

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

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

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

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

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

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

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

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

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

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

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

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

Disks are rolled out onto the south lawn to absorb the impact of Marine One's wheels like giant coffee coasters.