Tillamook, Oregon
Octopus Tree of Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Norman, Oklahoma
The largest collection of political commercials in the world.
Goodwell, Oklahoma
On a college campus in the Oklahoma panhandle a museum honors the last piece of the contiguous United States to be classified as No Man's Land.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.
Norman, Oklahoma
The largest land animal skull ever discovered.
Catoosa, Oklahoma
Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.
Columbus, Ohio
The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.
Cleveland, Ohio
The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.
Cleveland, Ohio
A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.
Westerville, Ohio
Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.
Dayton, Ohio
This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.
Canton, Ohio
The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.
Mansfield, Ohio
This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.
Hilliard, Ohio
A retro walk through the history of the tube.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.
Mentor, Ohio
A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.
Canton, Ohio
Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.
Hamilton, Ohio
A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.
East Cleveland, Ohio
Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.
Bellaire, Ohio
There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.
Athens, Ohio
An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.