Raven Traveler's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

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I love traveling. When I have the opportunity to do so, I may crosscheck the "Atlas," to see what may be at my travel destination or along the way.

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Mansfield, Ohio

BibleWalk Wax Museum

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

bryanwoerner

Added by bryanwoerner

Plum Brook Station (Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility)

This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Merchant Ball

This moving cemetery sphere is a slowly rolling stone.

markallender

Added by markallender

Bellefontaine, Ohio

Campbell Hill

In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.

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Added by thomasharper

Kerr’s Run Colored School

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

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Garden of Constants

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Grave of Fredric J. Baur

The inventor of the iconic Pringles can was so proud of his invention he was buried in one.

Luke J Spencer

Added by Luke J Spencer

The Mound Cemetery

At the center of this cemetery stands a 2,000-year-old burial mound of the Adena culture.

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Added by rbt45769

Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

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Midland City Station

Now in disrepair, this 19th century station was a stop on of the famed B&O Railroad.

Added by branss8

Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

Thought and Sight

Added by Thought and Sight

Willoughby, Ohio

The Girl in Blue

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

markallender

Added by markallender

McKinley Presidential Library & Museum

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Cleveland, Ohio

Wade Memorial Chapel

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

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Added by thomasharper

Merry-Go-Round Museum

Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

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Warther Museum

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.

Added by Susannah Brooks

Historic Zoar Village

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

Added by gabrieljr

East Liverpool, Ohio

Sturgis House Mortuary Museum

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

Added by Reedrosa

Judy's Jungle

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

TinySputniks

Added by TinySputniks

Cleveland, Ohio

Streetcar Deck of the Detroit-Superior Bridge

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

Rick Jennings

Added by Rick Jennings

Zanesville, Ohio

Zanesville Y-Bridge

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

Added by solarconstant

SAM 26000

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

kitrey

Added by kitrey

Hollow Earth Monument

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

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Mansfield, Ohio

Mansfield Memorial Museum

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

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Added by Allison