The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

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

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

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

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display.

All that remains of a gigantic earth-moving machine.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

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

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

A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.

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

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

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

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

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