Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Ohio
Detourmap lists 39 places in Ohio, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Cuyahoga Valley National Park. 37 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 39
- Oldest
- Ohio Governor's Mansion 1925
- Little known
- 37 of 39
- Share of United States
- 1%
Ohio 39
All 39, best known first.
-
1.Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
National park in Ohio, United States
-
4.Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Archaeological · 21st century · Hidden gem
National Monument of the United States commemorating Charles Young (1864-1922), an escaped slave who became a Buffalo Soldier in the U.S. Army and its first Af…
-
9.Zane Shawnee Caverns
Nature · Hidden gem
Cave system in Jefferson Township, Logan County, Ohio, United States
-
17.Alligator Effigy Mound
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Effigy mound in Granville, Ohio, United States
-
21.Mound Cemetery Mound
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Native American mound in central Meigs County, Ohio, United States
-
24.Paul Laurence Dunbar House
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic house museum in Dayton, Ohio, USA
-
28.John Rankin House
Archaeological · 21st century · Hidden gem
National Historic Landmark in Ripley, Ohio
-
29.Ohio Governor's Mansion
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Official residence of the governor of Ohio
-
34.Wonderland
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Human settlement in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
-
37.Karshner Mound
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Place in Ohio listed on National Register of Historic Places
Elsewhere in United States
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Ohio?
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 20th century. National park in Ohio, United States. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Ohio?
39: 28 archaeological & historic sites and 11 nature & landscapes. 37 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Ohio?
Ohio Governor's Mansion, dated to 1925. 5 of the 39 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Ohio here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Ohio if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Ohio is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.