A U.S. City Just Granted Legal Rights to a Lake
Crystal Jankowski went into labor during the 2014 water crisis in Toledo, Ohio. The city’s 276,000 residents couldn’t…
Ohio Is Set to Become the First State to Let Businesses Pay Taxes With Bitcoin
Ohio is poised to become the first state to allow businesses to pay taxes with bitcoin in a new initiative that may…
Lake Erie's Water Crisis Is So Bad This Brewery Is Putting Algae in Beer
TOLEDO, OHIO—The staff at Maumee Bay Brewing Company swear that the brewery’s 150-year old building is haunted. A…
Amazon Is Building a Colossal Warehouse Where America's Biggest Mall Once Stood
The Seattle-based internet book seller Amazon just announced plans to open an enormous fulfillment center in the North…
Inmates Stashed Two Homebrew Computers in Ohio Prison's Ceiling, Used Them to Do More Crimes
Adam Johnston and Scott Spriggs may well go down as Ohio’s cleverest inmates.
Unsellable 196-Foot Picnic Basket Marked Down to $5 Million
According to some, the future of architecture is wood, but in Newark, Ohio, the future has already arrived—in the form…
Why Columbus Just Won $140 Million to Become the Transportation City of the Future
Of the seven cities chosen as finalists for the US Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge, Columbus, Ohio…
12 Perfect New Tenants For Ohio's Building That Looks Like a Basket
Those planning a road trip to see the Newark, Ohio headquarters of the famous Longaberger company might be…
Photoshop Contest: Who Should Be the New Owners of the Country's Only Basket-Building?
Life’s a picnic, or at least that’s what Ohio basket manufacturer Longaberger believed when it custom-built this…
The Sinister Mystery of the Circleville, Ohio Poison-Pen Letter Writer
New Jersey’s eerie “Watcher” mystery has a precedent: In 1976, the citizens of Circleville, Ohio began receiving…
The Strange, Bitter 19th Century Debate Over Where Toledo Was
From our smug (though extremely temporary) perch atop history, we can safely say that we know exactly where the U.S.…
The 5 Coolest New Parks and Public Spaces In the U.S.
Urban Land Institute has announced its Open Space Awards, celebrating five exceptional new parks and public spaces…
Watch the fireball that exploded over Ohio last night
Last night, a meteoroid hit Earth's atmosphere over Ohio, exploding in a fiery flash of light.
Neil Armstrong didn't misspeak on the Moon. That's how Ohioans talk.
At this point, I think we can all agree it doesn't really matter whether Neil Armstrong said "one small step for man"…
Why Is the GOP Changing Voting Machine Software Right Before the Election?
Just last month, Ohio's Republican Secretary of State okayed the installation of software updates to electronic voting…
World's Largest Vacuum Chamber Can Swallow Lesser Vacuum Chambers
The Space Environment Simulation Lab is a big vacuum chamber. Like, "able to swallow a Space Shuttle" big. Impressive,…
A Whole Town Under One Roof
The January 18, 1925, Zanesville Times Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) ran an article about a proposed 88 story skyscraper in…
Buckminster Fuller's Largest Dome Is Now a National Historic Place
Buckminster Fuller only designed about a dozen of domed structures to begin with, and many have either been torn down…
Ohio woman claims that ghosts are having sex in her home
Yesterday, we regaled you with the mystery of the Maine blot. Today, even more incontrovertible evidence of the…
Exotic Wild Animals Are on the Loose in Ohio, Police Asking People to Protect Themselves with Twitter
Eastern Ohio is shut down right now because exotic wild animals—bears, tigers, lions, cheetahs, wolves and other…