Middle Bass Island State Park occupies nearly 20% of the 750-acre Middle Bass Island in Lake Erie's western basin, Ottawa County, northern Ohio, encompassing wetlands, woodlands, glacial grooves, exposed limestone cliffs, shrubby thickets, a small sand beach, and nearly a mile of pristine shoreline.
Indian Lake State Park spans 800 acres along the shores of Ohio's second-largest inland lake at 5,104 acres in Logan County, west-central Ohio near Lakeview.
Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the home stadium of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds, opening on March 31, 2003, after replacing the multi-purpose Riverfront Stadium (later Cinergy Field) built in 1970.
Great Council State Park is Ohio's 76th state park, opened on June 7, 2024, in Greene County near Xenia along State Route 68 on the site of the historic Shawnee village Old Chillicothe near the Little Miami River.
Blue Rock State Park in southeast Ohio spans 322 acres of rugged hills, lush oak-hickory forests, and Cutler Lake, offering a serene escape with diverse wildlife like deer, squirrels, and wild turkeys amid wildflowers, ferns, and rare orchids.
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park encompasses nearly 600 acres of prime lakeside land around Ohio's largest inland lake—spanning 13,500 acres at shallow depths of 5-7 feet—in Mercer and Auglaize counties, western Ohio between Celina and St. Marys.
Castle Noel in Medina, Ohio, at 260 South Court Street, is America's largest indoor year-round Christmas entertainment attraction, opened in 2013 by Mark and Dana Klaus inside a former Methodist church transformed into a 40,000-square-foot holiday wonderland.
Belterra Park Gaming & Entertainment Center is a racino located in Anderson Township just outside southeast Cincinnati, Ohio, along the Ohio River at 6301 Kellogg Road, offering live thoroughbred horse racing, over 1,300 slot machines, table games, a sportsbook, and six restaurants including casual dining and a VIP lounge.
John Bryan State Park spans 752 acres in Greene County, western Ohio, between Yellow Springs and Clifton, renowned for its dramatic limestone gorge carved by the Little Miami River—a National Natural Landmark.
The Akron Art Museum in Ohio, established in 1922 as the Akron Art Institute, features a collection of over 7,000 works of art spanning from 1850 to the present.
Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland of the Connecticut Land Company, is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.
Lake Loramie State Park spans 407 acres of land around the expansive 1,655-acre Lake Loramie in Shelby and Auglaize Counties, western Ohio near Fort Loramie.
The Cuyahoga River in Ohio, running about 100 miles through northeastern Ohio and emptying into Lake Erie at Cleveland, has a rich history as a vital transportation route and industrial hub.
Put-in-Bay Winery on South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, opened in May 2009 inside the historic Victorian Italianate Doller Mansion, once home to island entrepreneur Valentine Doller, offering scenic Lake Erie lakefront views and a relaxed atmosphere amid the area's long wine-making tradition that began in the 1850s with vineyards covering hundreds of acres for varieties like Concord and Catawba.
West Side Market in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood at West 25th Street and Lorain Avenue is the city's oldest continuously operating public market, originating as an open-air site in 1840 on land donated by Ohio City mayors Josiah Barber and Richard Lord, evolving into the Pearl Street Market by 1868 before the current yellow-brick hall opened in 1912 after nearly $735,000 in construction.
Tinkers Creek State Nature Preserve spans nearly 786 acres of rich peat, swamp, and marshland straddling Portage and Summit Counties in northeastern Ohio near Aurora, featuring extensive wetlands shaped by ancient glaciers with moraines, kames, eskers, and diverse habitats like tamarack fens—Ohio's only native needle-shedding conifer with rare reproducing populations.
Flint Ridge State Memorial in Licking County, Ohio, preserves a 533-acre portion of an ancient Native American flint quarry used for over 12,000 years by cultures including Archaic, Adena, and especially Hopewell peoples who mined colorful, high-quality Ohio flint—the state's official gemstone—for tools, weapons, and trade across eastern North America, leaving hundreds of visible quarry pits and workshops across an 8-mile ridge.
