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Curious Landmarks

Longaberger Basket Building

Newark, Ohio

A seven-story office building was constructed as a colossal replica of a Longaberger market basket, complete with enormous handles arching over the roof.

Roadside Attractions

Cornhenge: Field of Corn

Dublin, Ohio

One hundred nine human-sized concrete ears of corn stand in precise rows on a former farm, turning an ordinary crop into a surreal suburban army.

Strange Museums

American Sign Museum

Cincinnati, Ohio

Thousands of neon signs, giant trade figures, painted advertisements, and mechanical displays turn a Cincinnati warehouse into a glowing history of American roadside communication.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock

Sugarcreek, Ohio

A 23-foot-tall cuckoo clock comes alive every half hour with a bird, dancing figures, and a mechanical polka band.

Curious Landmarks

Mushroom House

Cincinnati, Ohio

Curving cedar, copper, glass, ceramics, and sculpted surfaces transform an ordinary Cincinnati lot into a house that looks grown rather than constructed.

Giant Objects

Cleveland’s 35-Ton Rubber Stamp

Cleveland, Ohio

A gigantic steel and aluminum office stamp lies beside Cleveland City Hall as if somebody dropped a piece of desk equipment weighing dozens of tons.

Roadside Attractions

Topiary Garden

Columbus, Ohio

Fifty-four life-sized topiary figures recreate a famous nineteenth-century painting in three dimensions, complete with people, animals, boats, and a pond.

Giant Objects

Big Muskie Bucket

McConnelsville, Ohio

The enormous bucket from the largest dragline ever built survives as a roadside monument large enough for visitors to walk inside.

Historic Oddities

Cincinnati Subway

Cincinnati, Ohio

Beneath Cincinnati lies more than two miles of abandoned subway tunnel and unfinished stations from a transit system that ran out of money before a single…

Historic Oddities

Moonville Tunnel

McArthur, Ohio

A lonely brick railroad tunnel survives in the woods where the mining settlement of Moonville disappeared, leaving the tunnel as the community's most substantial remaining landmark.