See inside one of Ohio’s most beautiful historic landmarks, The Cleveland Arcade, using a 360-degree virtual reality tour!
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The Arcade: Over 125 Years of Shopping & Dining
The Arcade was built in 1890 in Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway District as one of the United States’ very first indoor shopping malls. The Victorian-era structure has a glass skylight spanning five stories high for the length of a football field. It is one of the last buildings of its kind in America that still remains standing from this era. It cost less than $900,000 to build back then!
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There are some places you visit when you’re a kid that just stay with you for the rest of your life. If enough years go by you start wondering, “Was that place real, or did I just dream that? Maybe I just saw it in a movie and a dream made it feel real…” For me, one of those places was Hocking Hills State Park. The park’s Ash Cave will make anyone wonder if they’re still in Ohio!
How I Met the Hocking Hills
When I was 14 years old, my family camped with my grandparents at the state park campground next to Old Man’s Cave. Especially for a boy growing up in relatively flat North Central Ohio, the Hocking Hills were a purely magical place. I remember it changing my entire perspective on what Ohio was, and I couldn’t wait to go back there someday and do some more exploring. It may have only been a three-hour drive away from Greater Cleveland, but unfortunately, it took me 21 years to get back! For several years before my return, I occasionally wondered to myself if it had just been a dream, or if it just seemed magical because I was young and inexperienced.
Well, let me tell you it is real and it is as magical as I remembered it being, and now you can see it for yourself right here! I hope it will inspire you to visit in real life. I’ve never found anything quite like it in the Eastern United States:
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Each spring, two tiny secluded Cleveland streets tucked next to the campus of Case Western Reserve University erupt with thousands of visitors to check out the art, crafts, music, and food of the Hessler Street Fair.
Experience the festivities in our 360-degree virtual reality tour!
Little Planet of the crowd listening to a band play at the Hessler Street Fair in the secluded Hessler Road Historic District in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood.
Over half a foot of wet snow from Winter Storm Linus blanketed Northeast Ohio in February 2015, creating winter wonderland in the Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks.
See it in 360-degrees here!
The Valley Parkway and the All-Purpose Trail from Cedar Point Ford in the Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Reservation.
The Music Room at Nighttown in Cleveland Heights, Ohio
