From the world’s largest basket, drumsticks and horseshoe crab to a field of giant corn cobs and flying saucer houses, Ohio is full of bizarre roadside attractions that make you say, “Why?” But also, “Cool!” If you’re looking for a roadtrip stop full of lasting (and weird) memories, these are the spots you won’t want to miss to snap a memorable pic.

The Futuro House 9961 Central Ave., Carlisle Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed around 100 houses shaped like spaceships during the 1960s and 70s. The houses can be found all over the world, but this one is in Carlisle, Ohio, where I-75 meets I-71, just north of Cincinnati. Credit: Futuro House/Facebook
Tower of VW Bugs 1938 East Second St., Defiance Head west on 80 for about two and a half hours to see this stack of 1960’s Volkswagen Beetles. Five bugs are stacked on top of each other in the parking lot of Pack Rat’s Pawn Shop. Credit: Bob McGilvray/Flickr
The World’s Largest Basket 1500 East Main St., Newark This giant basket housed the Longaberger Company until 2014, when the company moved out and eventually shut down their business that had been around for close to 100 years. Fear not, the basket is still there, about 150 miles south west of here, halfway between Zanesville and Columbus. The basket building was sold for $1.2 million to a developer at the end of 2017 and will be used for something soon. Credit: Longaberger/Facebook
Field Of Giant Corn Cobs 4995 Rings Rd., Dublin Dublin, a suburb of Columbus, is home to this giant field of corn, also known as ‘cornhenge’. The project was a publicly-funded art installation featuring 109 ears of corn weighing approximately 1,500 pounds each and is set up in rows reminiscent of Arlington National Cemetery. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Great Serpent Mound 3850 State Rte. 73, Peebles The Great Serpent Mound is a National Historic Landmark and is located at the end of I-71, just north of the Kentucky border. It is an effigy mound in the shape of a snake and was built by Native Americans, somewhere between 500 and 1,000 years ago. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
World’s Largest Amish Buggy 7007 County Rd. 672, Berlin Standing 10 feet tall and almost 14 feet wide and weighing 1,200 pounds, this buggy sits inside Wendell August Forge, a gift and souvenir store in the Amish tourist town of Berlin. Berlin is about 30 miles southwest of Canton. Credit: David Dunn/Facebook
Factory Ruins and Sculpture Park 501 South Main St., Mount Vernon This place is really cool! It’s an old glass factory that was repurposed as an art park with a smokestack, ruins and a labyrinth and is definitely worth the trip out to Mount Vernon, located just off of I-71, 25 miles south of Mansfield. Credit: @ArielFoundationPark/Instagram
Hartman Rock Garden 1905 Russell Ave., Springfield Head to Springfield, just north of Dayton, and visit this really awesome rock garden. Built in 1932 during the Great Depression, this outdoor folk art installation contains mini-replicas of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, the White House, and Mount Vernon and a large castle built with 20,000 stones! Credit: Hartman Rock Garden/Facebook
World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock 100 North Broadway St., Sugarcreek In 2010, this 24-foot cuckoo clock was moved from its old home, Wilmot, to Sugarcreek, a Swiss-themed tourist town. Sugarcreek is only about 80 miles south of Cleveland, so what are you waiting for, the clock is ticking (get it?). Credit: @XXJuguXX/Instagram
Giant Ronald McDonald 7806 East State Rte., 37, Sunbury One of the creepier attractions on our list, and frankly, in the country, no one is quite sure why this Ronald McDonald exists. But, it’s there, it’s weird, and so, go see it if you like oddities like this. Otherwise, when else would you visit Sunbury, just off I-71 before you reach Columbus? Credit: @RonTron2000/Instagram
World’s Tallest Our Lady of Guadalupe Statue 6601 Ireland Rd., Windsor Located in Windsor, around 50 miles east of downtown, just before you get to Pennsylvania, stands this religious statue, measuring 33 feet tall. Credit: Windsor,Ohio/Facebook
Large Rocking Chair 1933 Highway 45, Austinburg A battle has waged for years over which large rocking chair is actually the biggest in the world. Many claim it, but only one holds the actual record. We’re just not sure which one it is. But this one, 50 miles east on I-90, is definitely large, standing 20 feet tall. Credit: @2000America/Instagram
World’s Largest Basket of Apples 5563 Raiders Rd., Frazeysburg Close to the World’s Largest Basket but much lesser known stands the World’s Largest Basket of Apples. Also once owned by the basket company Longaberger, the basket stands close to 20 feet tall. Credit: @SneakyPanda/Instagram
Pumpkin Water Tower Logan St., Circleville Circleville, about 30 miles south of Columbus, is known for their annual Pumpkin Festival, which they bill as the “best free festival on Earth.” What better way to promote the biggest thing in town than painting the town water tower to look like a pumpkin! Credit: Justin Masterson/Flickr
Faux Ghost Town 10630 Hancock County Rd. 40, Findlay This replica town was created to resemble a ghost town of the old west. At least this place helps Findlay be known for something besides Ben Roethlisberger. Credit: Ghost Town, Findlay, Ohio/Facebook
Hot Dog Bun Museum 1902 Front St., Toledo Toledo’s Tony Packo’s is known for their delicious Hungarian food, hot dogs, chili and paprikash. Lesser known is their Hot Dog Bun Hall of Fame. The restaurant has been around since 1930, and celebrities that have stopped through over time sign a plastic hot dog bun that goes up on the wall. Burt Reynolds signed a real bun. Credit: @Todd Van Hoeser/Instagram
World’s Largest Washboard 14 Gallagher Ave., Logan Logan, Ohio, halfway between Columbus and Athens, is home to the Columbus Washboard Company, which has the world’s largest washboard on their building. In addition, the town hosts the annual Washboard Music, Arts and Crafts Festival for three days every Father’s Day weekend. Credit: @RockBottomStringBand/Instagram
The Temple of Tolerance 203 South Wood St., Wapakoneta This small town south of Lima, known as the birthplace for Neil Armstrong, is an unlikely place to find a hippie/artistic enclave reminiscent of Taos, New Mexico or Sedona, Arizona. But that’s exactly what you’ll find at this rock sculpture temple that took 18 years to build. Credit: @365Sara/Instagram
The Troll Hole 228 East Main St., Alliance If you’re into trolls, well, we have the perfect spot for you. The Troll Hole in Alliance is a museum dedicated to Troll Dolls and in fact has the largest collection of Troll dolls in the world according to the Guiness Book of World Records.
Giant Tomato Soup Can 12772 State Route 110, Napoleon As the weather starts to cool off, what could be better than a warm bowl of tomato soup. How about a massive can of tomato soup outside Campbell’s production facility near Toledo? Credit: Google Maps
World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab 7529 OH-124, Hillsboro At the Freedom Worship Church in Blanchester, the World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab was built in 1995. In 2015, the crab sold and was reassembled in Hillsboro, 25 miles from its original location. The crab, known as Crabbie, is 28 feet wide, 67 feet long, and 12 feet high. Credit: World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab/Facebook
Giant Dancing Rabbits 6350 Woerner Temple Rd., Dublin In the Columbus suburb of Dublin, you’ll find the Ballantrae Giant Dancing Hares which were made by English artist Sophie Ryder in 2001. The trio of rabbits are 24-feet tall. Credit: Dublin, Ohio/Facebook
Vase in Place 768 W. Main St., Zanesville This stunning display in Zanesville, the “Clay Capital of the World” features 100 vases. The project began in 2005 and features contributions from 1,500 workers. Credit: Marada/Flickr
Dave Grohl Alley, World’s Largest Drumsticks Warren Dave Grohl, drummer of Nirvana and frontman of the Foo Fighters was born in Warren before moving to Virginia at a young age. In 2007, Warren resident Joe O’Grady convinced city council to dedicate a dilapidated alley to the rocker, which now features murals of Grohl, along with the world’s largest drumsticks, carved by Warren-based artist Joel Eggert. Credit: Lisa Ann Remick/Facebook
“Hug Me Jesus” 903 Union Road, Lebanon After a lightning fire destroyed a giant Jesus statue known as “Touchdown Jesus” that brought national attention to the Solid Rock Church in Monroe in 2010, the church couldn’t go without and replaced the monument in 2012. The giant Lux Mundi statue designed by Tom Tsuchiya, affectionately nicknamed “Hug Me Jesus,” is visible from I-75. Credit: Photo via NTT72USA/Wikimedia

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