Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve in Oregonia, Ohio, is North America's largest prehistoric hilltop enclosure, a 2,000-year-old Hopewell culture complex spanning 100 acres with 3.5 miles of earthen walls up to 23 feet high enclosing three sections, built basketful by basketful over 400 years using tools like deer shoulder blades and clam shell hoes.
Easton Town Center in northeast Columbus, Ohio, opened in 1999 as an innovative open-air lifestyle center designed to mimic a self-contained early-to-mid 20th-century American town, developed by L Brands, The Georgetown Company, and Steiner + Associates in response to shifting retail trends away from enclosed malls.
Dillon State Park spans 2,285 acres of wooded hills and scenic valleys around Dillon Lake in east-central Ohio near Nashport, formed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam on the Licking River completed in 1961 for flood control.
Kelleys Island State Park covers 677 acres on one-quarter of Kelleys Island, the largest American island in Lake Erie's western basin, located 13 miles northeast of Port Clinton in Erie County, Ohio.
Portage Lakes State Park covers 411 acres across eight interconnected lakes totaling 2,034 acres in Summit County, northeastern Ohio near New Franklin and Akron.
The Escape Game Cincinnati in Ohio is a premier escape room center located at 28 West Freedom Way in the Banks district, offering immersive, themed adventures where teams work together to solve puzzles and escape within 60 minutes.
Miamisburg Mound Park in Miamisburg, Ohio, features the largest conical burial mound in the eastern United States, standing 65 feet tall with an 800-foot circumference and containing 54,000 cubic yards of earth built by the Adena culture between 800 B.C. and A.D. 100 atop a 100-foot bluff overlooking the Great Miami River.
The Ohio Statehouse in Columbus is a historic government building completed in 1861 and renowned as one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States.
Sandusky, Ohio, is a historic port city of about 25,000 residents at the head of Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie, roughly halfway between Cleveland and Toledo, founded in 1816 as Portland Township and incorporated in 1824.
Punderson State Park spans 741 acres in Geauga County's glaciated plateau near Newbury, northeastern Ohio, featuring Ohio's largest and deepest natural kettle lake at 150 acres, formed when ancient glacial ice melted around 14,000 years ago.
Mt. Gilead State Park covers 181 acres of peaceful woodlands and rolling glacial moraine terrain in Morrow County, central Ohio, just east of the village of Mount Gilead, featuring a 13.5-acre lake formed by early 1900s dams on Sam's Creek and redesigned spillways from 2015-2018.
Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio, is a National Historic Landmark and the nation's sixth largest historic home open to the public, built between 1912 and 1915 as the estate of F.A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, and his wife Gertrude.
Van Buren State Park covers 296 acres of remnant woodland in Hancock County, northwestern Ohio, nestled amid vast agricultural fields south of the village of Van Buren, offering a serene escape with beech-maple forests, glacial till plains, and Rocky Ford Creek.
Paint Creek State Park spans 5,652 acres across Highland and Ross counties in southern Ohio, featuring the 1,148-acre Paint Creek Lake created by a dam on Paint Creek completed in 1972.
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, located at 1 Wade Oval Drive in Cleveland's University Circle, is Ohio's largest natural sciences museum, founded in 1920 by Cyrus S. Eaton with roots tracing to 1830s collections like the Ark and Kirtland Society.
Tar Hollow State Park spans 604 acres amid the 16,446-acre Tar Hollow State Forest in Ross, Vinton, and Hocking Counties, southeastern Ohio, five miles south of Laurelville, surrounded by rugged Appalachian foothills, deep ravines, dense woodlands, and ridges dotted with shortleaf and pitch pines that supplied tar to early settlers.
Firelands Winery, located in Sandusky, Ohio, is one of the state’s oldest wineries, with its original cellar built in 1880 by German immigrant Edward Mantey.
