Animals in Ohio

Discover 9 places to experience unusual animals in Ohio.

Newhouse Room

Trap History Museum

If you want to build a better mousetrap, first consult this small museum's massive collection of trapping tools.

Bath Road Heronry Photographers

Peninsula, Ohio

Bath Road Heronry

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

The magnificent bison in the park.

Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

Johnny Morehouse and his faithful dog.

Grave of Johnny Morehouse

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

Mausoleum with Statue

McKinley Presidential Library & Museum

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

The zebra family

Judy's Jungle

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

Balto in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland, Ohio

Balto the Sled Dog

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

Lucky Cat Museum-2012

Cincinnati, Ohio

Lucky Cat Museum

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

"Stumpy" John Silver

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

Are we missing something unusual in Ohio?