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    Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio.

    Cedar Point Amusement Park

    Ohio

    Cedar Point is one of the world's top amusement parks, known for its 18 adrenaline-pumping roller coasters. Stomach-droppers include the Top Thrill…

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    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum

    Cleveland

    Cleveland's top attraction is like an overstuffed attic bursting with groovy finds: Jimi Hendrix's Stratocaster, Keith Moon's platform shoes, John Lennon…

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    Interior of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

    Cleveland Museum of Art

    Cleveland

    Cleveland's whopping art museum houses an excellent collection of European paintings, as well as African, Asian and American art. Head to the 2nd floor…

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    Aircraft at the National Museum of the Unites States Air Force.

    National Museum of the US Air Force

    Ohio

    Located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 6 miles northeast of Dayton, this huuuuge museum has everything from a Wright Brothers 1909 Flyer to a Sopwith…

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    Baby goat at Young’s Jersey Dairy.

    Young's Jersey Dairy

    Ohio

    Young's is a working dairy farm with a famous ice-cream shop, the Dairy Store, which many say whips up Ohio's best milkshakes. There are also lots of fun…

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    COSI

    Ohio

    The acronym stands for Center of Science and Industry, and it ranks high in the pantheon of children’s museums around the country. Of the 300-plus hands…

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    Cincinnati Museum Center

    Cincinnati

    This museum complex occupies the 1933 Union Terminal, an art deco jewel still used by Amtrak. The interior has fantastic murals made of local Rookwood…

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    MY3RYA A man walks past the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Money Museum

    Money Museum

    Cleveland

    Pop into this small gallery inside the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and you'll emerge richer than when you entered. Literally, since the Money…

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    Rockefeller Park Greenhouse is a city public park named in honor of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr., located in Cleveland, Ohio. The greenhouse and its gardens occupy a four acres and opened in 1905.

    Rockefeller Park Greenhouse

    Cleveland

    The 1905 hothouse bursts with cacti, orchids, ferns and irises. On cold days the sultry rooms provide a sweet refuge, and you’ll likely have the place to…

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    Cleveland, OH - Oct 28,2019: Beautiful Place around Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland(MOCA) ; Shutterstock ID 1632176533; your: Bridget Brown; gl: 65050; netsuite: Online Editorial; full: POI Image Update

    Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

    Cleveland

    The shiny building impresses, with four stories of geometric black steel, though there's not a lot to see inside. The 2nd and 4th floors have the…

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    The American Sign Museum hosted a sneak preview on Saturday. It opens to the public on June 23. The Enquirer/ Joseph Fuqua II.American Sign Metro Saturday June 2, 2012: People tour and take pictures  of sign exhibits during the Sneak Preview Grand Opening at the American Sign Museum Saturday June 2, 2012 in Camp Washington. The Enquirer/ Joseph Fuqua II

    American Sign Museum

    Cincinnati

    This museum stocks an awesome cache of flashing, lightbulb-studded beacons in an old parachute factory. You’ll burn your retinas staring at vintage neon…

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    The shed where the sharpeners are kept at Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum

    Paul A Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum

    Ohio

    Who collects pencil sharpeners? Rev Paul Johnson of Carbon Hill, Ohio, did for nearly 20 years, and his eccentric collection of thousands – America’s…

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    Tasting the moonshine at Hocking Hills Moonshine

    Hocking Hills Moonshine

    Ohio

    Learn how moonshine is made from start to finish at this family-owned distillery. You’ll see original copper pot stills that date back to the family’s…

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    A landscape view of Cincinnati's Smale Riverfront Park and the Roebling Suspension Bridge that crosses over the Ohio River and connects Cincinnati, Ohio to Covington, Kentucky.

    Roebling Suspension Bridge

    Cincinnati

    The elegant 1867 spanner was a forerunner of John Roebling's famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The Romanesque arches and draped cables have made it an…

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    Cincinnati Art Museum

    Cincinnati

    The collection spans 6000 years, with an emphasis on ancient Middle Eastern art and European old masters, plus a wing devoted to local works. While…

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    Fountain Square

    Cincinnati

    Fountain Sq is the city's centerpiece, a public space with a seasonal ice rink, free wi-fi, concerts (7pm Wednesday to Saturday in summer), a farmers…

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    John Glenn Astronomy Park

    Ohio

    The Hocking Hills claim some of the country’s darkest skies, which is why this astronomy park provides an amazing opportunity for earthlings obsessed with…

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    Whiskey Island

    Cleveland

    Whiskey Island floats at the edge of downtown, where the Cuyahoga River empties into Lake Erie. The area consists of a boat-filled marina, a raucous bar…

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    National Veterans Memorial and Museum

    Ohio

    Poignant and powerful, Columbus’ newest museum tells the stories of US service members over the past 250-plus years. The focus is on individual people,…

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    Hocking Hills State Park

    Ohio

    Ohio's most popular park is splendid to explore in any season, but it's especially lovely in autumn. Thirty miles of hiking trails meander through the…

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    Dairy Barn Arts Center

    Ohio

    Built in 1914, the barn was part of a working farm that the old Athens Lunatic Asylum established on its grounds. It was saved from demolition in the…

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    Serpent Mound

    Ohio

    Serpent Mound is perhaps the most captivating of all of the native mounds that dot southeastern Ohio. The giant, uncoiling snake stretches over a quarter…

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    Gibraltar Island

    Ohio

    The little island, named for its resemblance to the Rock of Gibraltar, was once owned by banker Jay Cooke, who built a 15-room, gothic-looking castle on…

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    Pro Football Hall of Fame

    Ohio

    This shrine for gridiron-obsessed fans has great interactive exhibits and artifacts. See the football Peyton Manning threw for his record-breaking 509th…

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    Heini's Cheese Chalet

    Ohio

    Heini's whips up more than 50 cheeses. Learn how Amish farmers hand-milk their cows and spring-cool (versus machine-refrigerate) the output before…

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    Topiary Park

    Ohio

    If you’ve ever thought, ‘I wonder what Georges Seurat’s post-impressionist masterpiece A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte would look like…

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    Malabar Farm State Park

    Ohio

    What do Bogie, Bacall and Johnny Appleseed have in common? They've all spent time here. There's a lot going on: hiking and horse trails; tractor-drawn…

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    Edgewater Park Beach

    Cleveland

    This wide swath of shore is a local hot spot. It has lifeguards, cabana rentals (per day $20), paddleboard rentals (per hour $20), pick-up volleyball…

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    Christmas Story House & Museum

    Cleveland

    Remember the beloved 1983 film A Christmas Story, in which Ralphie yearns for a Red Ryder BB gun? The original house sits in Tremont, complete with leg…

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    Apple House

    Ohio

    The Hocking Hills are prime fruit-growing territory thanks to super-fertile soil, and three generations of the family-owned Laurelville Fruit Farm have…

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    Inscription Rock Petroglyphs

    Ohio

    Native Americans who used the island as a hunting ground carved symbols into this boulder on the island's south shore sometime between AD 1200 and 1600…

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    Pizzuti Collection

    Ohio

    Curators show off the amazing collection of contemporary paintings, sculpture, film, photography and prints via exhibitions that change every three months…

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    Kennedy Museum of Art

    Ohio

    Ohio University’s small art museum is worth a peek. It’s known for its modern prints and photographs and its collection of Southwest Native American…

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    The Flats

    Cleveland

    The Flats, an old industrial zone turned nightlife hub on the Cuyahoga River, has had a checkered life. After years of neglect, it's on the upswing once…

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    Columbus Museum of Art

    Ohio

    It’s not the biggest or flashiest museum around, but it has a fine collection, with strong suits in early modern American and European art. Highlights…

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    Scioto Mile

    Ohio

    This network of green spaces stretches along both sides of the Scioto River as it twists through downtown. Paths prime for strolling edge the water and…

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    World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock

    Ohio

    C’mon, you know you want to see it. Located in downtown Sugarcreek – aka the Little Switzerland of Ohio – the 23ft-tall clock lets loose every 30 minutes…

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    Contemporary Arts Center

    Cincinnati

    The center displays modern art in an avant-garde building designed by star architect Zaha Hadid. The free exhibitions – say, a retrospective of fanciful…

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