Tina Turner wore this red dress in her “Private Dancer" video.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s exhibits span seven floors with continuous music echoing.
Case Western Reserve University. Centered by green and treed Wade Oval, it’s where the stately façade of the Cleveland Museum of Art reflects off the still waters of scenic Wade Lagoon. My last Cleveland stop is Lake View Cemetery, the final resting place for such notables as John D. Rockefeller, FBI organized crime fighter Eliot Ness, and U.S. President James Garfield. The Garfield Memorial is an impressive towered mausoleum designed in gothic and classical architectural styles. Relief carvings decorate its outside façade, while a 12-foot statue of the bearded 20th president stands within the tower’s ornate domed interior. “This is a grand monument to one of the poorest president’s in U.S. history,” notes guide Bob Hook. Garfield was shot in Washington in 1888, serving only about 200 days as president. Canton Just over an hour’s drive from Cleveland on Interstate 77 South, Canton’s greatest attraction is yet another impressive presidential mausoleum—the domed William McKinley National Memorial. The 25th president died eight days after he was shot while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901. The granite
memorial’s imposing exterior reaches 95 feet high. Halfway up the 108-step stairwell stands a statue of McKinley, a Canton native. “He is best known for leading the country through the Spanish American War in 1898, which established the U.S. as a global power for the first time in our history,” says Christopher Kenney, education director for the adjacent McKinley Presidential Library and Museum. Inside, I’m amazed at the talking mannequin likenesses of McKinley and wife Ida standing among some of his original furniture during his life as a soldier, congressman, governor, and then president. They include a baby grand piano, his law office desk, and front porch wooden-ribbed rocking chair. There’s also Ida’s diamond tiara that was featured on the reality TV show “Pawn Stars,” and a period revolver of the same model used to shoot McKinley. Aviation history steps up to a new level at the Canton area’s extraordinary MAPS Air Museum. From the primitive stick-like and wood-paneled design of the historic 1908 Martin Glider, to a World War II B-26 Bomber and a late 20th century “Tomcat” fighter jet, the museum is home to more than 50 aircraft housed in a former military hanger and 130 historical displays in two galleries. Particularly noteworthy exhibits include
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