Miami Valley Gaming in Turtlecreek Township, Ohio, is a racino jointly owned by Delaware North Companies and Churchill Downs Inc., located at 6000 State Route 63 between Cincinnati and Dayton, and opened on December 12, 2013.
Lake Milton State Park is a 1,006‑acre day‑use park in northeastern Ohio, centered around nearly 1,700 acres of man‑made Lake Milton on the Mahoning River, offering a mix of forested hills, wetlands, and open water habitat for wildlife and people.
Buckeye Lake State Park, Ohio's oldest state park, encompasses 3,349 acres including a 3,100-acre lake originally built in 1826 as a feeder reservoir for the Ohio and Erie Canal in Fairfield, Licking, and Perry counties.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, opened on September 7, 1963, after the NFL selected the city as its site due to Canton's pivotal role in professional football history: the league's founding there as the American Professional Football Association on September 17, 1920, and the dominance of the Canton Bulldogs, the NFL's first repeat champions in 1922-1923 featuring Jim Thorpe.
The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio, is a unique science and natural history museum combining a children's museum, zoo, planetarium, and technology center under one roof.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio spans over 33,000 acres between the cities of Cleveland and Akron, preserving a mix of forests, rolling hills, wetlands, rivers, and farmlands.
JACK Thistledown Racino in North Randall, Ohio, on the outskirts of Cleveland, traces its roots to 1925 as Thistledown Race Track, reopening officially in 1931 under the Ohio Racing Commission after early closures and a 1944 fire, with major rebuilds in 1953 and renovations leading to its 2013 transformation into a racino via an $88 million investment by Rock Ohio Caesars.
Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack, located on Wheeling Island in West Virginia near the Ohio border, is a historic racing and gaming destination that opened in 1937 as Wheeling Downs, initially a thoroughbred horse race track.
The Escape Room USA in Columbus, Ohio, located at 459 North High Street Suite 2 in the Short North arts district near downtown, offers immersive, team-based escape room adventures rated number one on TripAdvisor for fun and games in the city.
Caesar Creek State Park in southwestern Ohio spans about 7,530 acres, including a 2,830-acre lake created by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam completed in 1978 for flood control on Caesar Creek, leased to the state and dedicated that year across Warren, Clinton, and Greene counties.
Independence Dam State Park covers 591 acres along the scenic Maumee River in Defiance County, northwestern Ohio, three miles east of Defiance, near the historic confluence with the Auglaize River.
Laurello Vineyards is a small, family-owned boutique winery in the heart of Ohio's Grand River Valley wine region, located at 4573 State Route 307 East in Geneva, Ohio, established around 2002 and specializing in Old World-inspired blends and single-varietal wines made primarily from local Northeast Ohio grapes.
Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg, located at 777 Hollywood Boulevard in Lawrenceburg, Indiana—about 20 minutes west of Cincinnati on the Ohio River—opened on December 13, 1996, as Argosy Casino before rebranding under Penn Entertainment (formerly Penn National Gaming) following its 2004 acquisition and a major 2009 expansion into a land-based facility with 150,000 square feet of gaming space.
Ohio Stadium, nicknamed The Horseshoe, is the iconic home of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in Columbus, Ohio, at 411 Woody Hayes Drive on the OSU campus.
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park near Chillicothe in southern Ohio preserves monumental earthen mounds and geometric enclosures built by Native Americans of the Hopewell tradition from about 200 BCE to 500 CE, showcasing their advanced engineering, astronomy, and ceremonial practices across six public sites like the fully restored Mound City Group with 23 conical burial mounds inside a square wall.
Findley State Park is an 838‑acre Ohio state park located near the village of Wellington in northern Ohio, originally established as a state forest before becoming a park in 1950 when Judge Guy B. Findley donated the land to Lorain County.
Hueston Woods State Park spans nearly 3,000 acres across Butler and Preble counties in southwestern Ohio, about five miles northeast of Oxford, surrounding the 625-acre man-made Acton Lake formed by damming Four Mile Creek in 1956.
