In its 96-year history, more than 150,000 criminals were confined to the towering cell blocks of the Ohio Reformatory in Mansfield. Read more.
This Planetarium was founded in 1930 by Max Adler, who was so impressed by a European machine replicating the night sky that he decided to build one.
It's the world's largest indoor aquarium with over 8,000 aquatic animals representing over 700 species. The Marine Mammal Presentation features staff interacting with whales & dolphins as they dive.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was created in 1983. Cleveland was chosen for the location because of disc jockey Alan Freed, who was known for promoting the new genre called “Rock and Roll.”
The Famous Endings Museum at Toland-Herzig Funeral Home and Crematory in Dover, Ohio, has the largest known collection of memorabilia from famous funerals.
The asylum, one of the largest hand-cut stone masonry buildings in North America, boasts more than 150 years of haunted history. Read more.
Awesome Landmark in the History of ManKind! Don't miss visiting the Battlefields at least once in your life. It's like nothing else I've ever experienced. Words can't do it justice! HIstory... :-)
Ghost Adventures investigates an Iowa house where 8 people were brutally murdered almost a century ago. As seen on Ghost Adventures. Read more.
This lovely 57-acre cemetery features elegant monuments that whitewash sordid lives. During the summer Cinespea screens classic films on the lawn while Valentino, Davies and Fairbanks sleep nearby.
A marvelous collection of antique oddities with a touch of the occult. From taxidermic treasures to dolls you wouldn't want to be left alone with.
This oddity museum is not for the queasy. Steel your stomach and learn how a local woman turned into soap after burial. Read more.
Site of the infamous axe murders. As seen on Ghost Adventures. Read more.
This memorial structure contains the bodies of President Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd and three of their sons.
Opened in 2005 it is ranked as the most visited state-controlled presidential museum. This museum documents the life of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, & the course of the American Civil War
admission is free but you have to get a ticket at the Visitor's Center. best to go on a good weather day so you can walk around the neighborhood. definitely worth visiting.
Yep, it's the real thing. Many of the original graves were moved when the road was put in, but the historic graves from the period in the 1880s remain here.
Ghost Adventures confronts the spirits of the Old West in Tombstone, AZ. The Bird Cage Theater embodied the heyday of the silver boom. Gunslingers, gamblers and prostitutes died in the theater. Read more.
Opened in 1993, this museum is devoted to the history of the Holocaust, the state-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
The pool, measuring some 2,000 feet long, was built soon after the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial; both were designed by architect Henry Bacon.
On the second floor of the Theater, you can see the boxseat where Abe Lincoln was sitting when he was killed. On the lower level the museum displays exhibits about Lincoln’s life and his tragic death.
The memorial currently consists of three separate parts: the Three Soldiers statue, the Vietnam Women's Memorial & the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, where over 58,000 names are engraved.
The museum first opened in 1964, and among the items on display are the original Star-Spangled Banner and Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz.
The Washington Monument was formally dedicated on February 22, 1885, and at the time of its construction, it was the tallest building in the world; it remains the tallest stone structure in the world.
Construction began in 1914, and the memorial was opened to the public in 1922. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd by the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 .
This memorial, dedicated in 2004, honors the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II (1939-45).
Museum Row on Main: Show your ticket stub from any of these attractions (Frazier International History Museum, Glassworks, Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, Louisville Science Center, Kentucky Muse
The museum was incorporated in 1893 as the Columbian Museum of Chicago, but the name was changed in 1905 to Field Museum of Natural History to better reflect its focus on the natural sciences.
There aren't many who can say they have an instrument from nearly every country of the world...MIM can.
