The Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio's Old West End, founded in 1901 by glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey, houses over 30,000 works across 45 galleries spanning 280,000 square feet on a 40-acre campus including the Glass Pavilion and Sculpture Garden.
Cincinnati Museum Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, occupies the iconic Art Deco Cincinnati Union Terminal, a National Historic Landmark train station built in 1933 and saved from demolition in the 1980s through public funding and grassroots efforts.
African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton, Ohio, is a 100-acre drive-through safari opened in 1973 where visitors feed over 50 species like giraffes, zebras including rare white ones, bison, camels, alpacas, llamas, elk, deer, warthogs, and giant eland directly from their cars using provided or extra food.
Kings Island is a 364-acre amusement park located 24 miles northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio, opened on April 29, 1972, by Taft Broadcasting as a relocation and expansion of the flood-prone Coney Island resort on the Ohio River.
Pymatuning State Park in northeastern Ohio lies along the Ohio–Pennsylvania border and centers on a large reservoir called Pymatuning Lake, which covers about 14,000 acres and is shared with Pennsylvania.
A.W. Marion State Park covers 310 acres near Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, featuring the serene 145-acre Hargus Lake formed by a 1948 dam on Hargus Creek amid glacially shaped till plains with fertile soils that once drew Adena people for farming 2,000 years ago.
Mountaineer Casino Resort, located on the Ohio River north of New Cumberland in West Virginia's northern panhandle near the Ohio border, spans 77 acres of wooded hillside and pioneered the U.S. racino model as the first racetrack to add slot machines in 1994 after opening as Waterford Park thoroughbred track in 1951.
Harrison Lake State Park covers 142 acres around a serene 95-acre lake in Fulton County, northwestern Ohio, three miles southwest of Fayette amid gently rolling agricultural hills.
The Short North Arts District in Columbus, Ohio, developed from a distressed area in the 1970s and early 1980s into a vibrant, artistic neighborhood known for its thriving art scene and community spirit.
The Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, stands as one of the nation's premier comprehensive art museums, housing over 63,000 works spanning 6,000 years of global artistic achievement, with renowned strengths in Asian, Egyptian, and African collections.
Delaware State Park covers 1,686 acres of woodlands, meadows, and wetlands around a 1,300-acre lake in Delaware County, Ohio, formed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control dam on the Olentangy River completed in 1951 and dedicated as a park the following year.
Shawnee State Park covers 1,095 acres within Ohio's vast 63,000-acre Shawnee State Forest in Scioto County, southern Ohio, near the Ohio River and Appalachian foothills north of Friendship.
Columbus Museum of Art, located at 480 East Broad Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio, was founded in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, becoming the first art museum in Ohio to receive a state charter.
Headlands Beach State Park spans 120 acres along Lake Erie's southern shore in Lake County, northeastern Ohio near Mentor, boasting the state's longest natural sand beach at over a mile long.
Adena State Memorial in Chillicothe, Ohio, preserves the 1807 hilltop mansion and 300-acre grounds of Thomas Worthington, Ohio's sixth governor and first U.S. senator from the state, designed by pioneering architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe—one of only three surviving U.S. structures by him—as a Federal-style plantation home overlooking the Scioto River Valley view immortalized on Ohio's Great Seal.
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial is a towering 352-foot Doric column, the world's tallest of its kind, located on South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, commemorating Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's decisive American victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, during the War of 1812.
Breakout Games - Columbus is a top-rated escape room center at 835 Grandview Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, offering immersive 60-minute adventures where teams solve puzzles, uncover clues, and escape themed rooms like Mind Games, a psychological thriller involving bomb defusal through interrogation, The Kidnapping, Mystery Mansion, and others.
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