25 Weird Ohio Roadside Attractions to Visit, From the World's Largest Basket of Apples to "Hug Me Jesus"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?).

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?