After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

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

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.