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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Ohio

208 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Ohio

Updated May 17, 2023

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The stairway leading to the top of the Great Mound.
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Ohio State Reformatory.
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Cincinnati, Ohio

American Sign Museum

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Put-in-Bay, Ohio

Crystal Cave

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
The statue appears to weep.

Cleveland, Ohio

The Haserot Angel

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
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 Wiccan artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

Peebles, Ohio

The Great Serpent Mound

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Ash Cave.

Logan, Ohio

The Caves of Hocking Hills State Park

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.
Loveland Castle

Loveland, Ohio

Harry Andrews' Chateau Laroche

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in rural Ohio.
The Rookwood Ice Cream Parlor

Cincinnati, Ohio

Rookwood Ice Cream Parlor

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.
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The Rookwood Ice Cream Parlor

Cincinnati, Ohio

Rookwood Ice Cream Parlor

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.
Cornhenge

Dublin, Ohio

Cornhenge

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
West Side Market

Cleveland, Ohio

West Side Market

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Fairfield, Ohio

Jungle Jim's International Market

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.
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This Puzzling Dessert Calls for Peaches and Physics

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Harking back to ancient America, the Newark Earthworks formed a ceremonial center and a sacred site.

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Dawoud Bey, Untitled #20 (Farmhouse and Picket Fence I), from the series Night Coming Tenderly, Black, 2017, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase.

The Photographer Who Reimagined the Darkness of the Underground Railroad

How acclaimed artist Dawoud Bey used the landscape to tell the story of the unseen.
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March 11, 2021
Loveland Frog, pleased to meet you.

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A new exhibition pays homage to some of the Buckeye State's beloved—and infamous—legends.
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Before the Civil War, the Middletown area was home to a network of abolitionist Quakers. This image shows modern-day Middletown, with the Great Miami River in the background.

The Legend of a Cave and the Traces of the Underground Railroad in Ohio

In 1892, a newspaper described a cave that sheltered 21 formerly enslaved people. Ohioans are still looking for it.
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