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Some of the brass collection

Logan, Ohio

Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum

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

The amazingly intricate pliers tree

Dover, Ohio

Warther Museum

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

Hollow Earth Monument

Hamilton, Ohio

Hollow Earth Monument

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

Hundreds of trolls

Alliance, Ohio

The Troll Hole

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

Annie Oakley's grave.

Versailles, Ohio

Annie Oakley's Grave

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

Worden Sculpture.

Hinckley, Ohio

Worden's Ledges

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

American Sign Museum

Cincinnati, Ohio

American Sign Museum

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The crystal ball of Sybil Leek, a British witch and astrologer who crossed over into more mainstream culture during the 1960s and 70s.

Cleveland, Ohio

Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

A classic Marktown house

East Chicago, Indiana

Marktown Historic District

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

The American Visionary Art Museum

Baltimore, Maryland

The American Visionary Art Museum

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Vent Haven Museum

Fort Mitchell, Kentucky

Vent Haven Museum

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

Another view of the monument.

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Point Pleasant Battlefield Memorial

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

The Mark 39 bomb.

Riverside, Ohio

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

Steamship William G. Mather

Cleveland, Ohio

Steamship William G. Mather

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

Bullet Hole

Kent, Ohio

Site of Kent State Shootings

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

A map at the Visitors Center lays out student protests across the USA in 1970.

Kent, Ohio

Kent State May 4 Visitors Center

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

The stairway leading to the top of the Great Mound.

Marietta, Ohio

The Mound Cemetery

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

If you expand this picture of the round bridge pier, you can see the large turning gear under the bridge structure.

Marietta, Ohio

B&O Harmar Bridge

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

Here is an old Conestoga wagon.

Marietta, Ohio

Campus Martius Museum

Home to several unusual artifacts, including a huge painting of George Washington.

The recently restored W. P. Snyder.

Marietta, Ohio

Ohio River Museum

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

Victorian dinner.

Cambridge, Ohio

Dickens Victorian Village

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

The Secret Chamber House of Oddities and Artwork

Fairborn, Ohio

The Secret Chamber House of Oddities and Artwork

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

View into the lock's chamber.

Zanesville, Ohio

Lock #10 on the Muskingum River

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

Gavel Sculpture

Columbus, Ohio

Gavel Sculpture

Just outside the Ohio Supreme Court sits a testament to justice.

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