A seven-story office building shaped exactly like a giant picnic basket, handles and all, near Newark — one of America's great oddball roadside buildings in the central Ohio countryside.
Road trips · Ohio
Ohio road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Ohio — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A surreal grid of 109 human-height concrete ears of corn standing in a Dublin field, a quirky tribute to the area's farming roots just outside Columbus.
A small, genuinely eerie museum of occult artifacts and folk magic in Cleveland — a fascinating rainy-day detour for anyone drawn to the strange.
The world's largest cuckoo clock looming over the sidewalk in Sugarcreek, the "Little Switzerland of Ohio," set in the heart of Amish Country's rolling hills.
Put your car in neutral and feel it roll uphill on a quiet country road near Richfield — a free, baffling optical-illusion stop between Cleveland and Akron.
A self-taught master cutler carved working ebony-and-ivory locomotives so intricate the Smithsonian came calling, all here in Dover with his wife's button collection and the family gardens.
Tee it up
Public golf you can book in Ohio.
Warren · $$$ — Dye design, Liddy as project architect
Columbus · $$$ — MacKenzie design restored by Nicklaus
Nashport · $$$ — Nicklaus's celebrated Ohio public design
Plan the Ohio trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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