10 Ohio Towns That Look Like Europe!

A bronze German poet shipped across the Atlantic for free. A cuckoo clock the height of a two-story house. A castle one man built by hand for fifty-two years. We count down ten real Ohio places that look like Europe: two Piatt castles, Loveland Castle, Akron's Tudor manor, Cleveland's Little Italy, the cross-tipped churches around Minster, Swiss Sugarcreek, English Mariemont, Over-the-Rhine, German Village, and Zoar, the village Europeans built for themselves and Ohio almost lost. Every entry ends with the Honest Check: the median home value against Ohio's, one real downside, and who should skip it. Maps and charts are original to Hidden Ohio. Shots of real European places are labelled "The real thing" so you always know what you're looking at. CHAPTERS 0:00 A poet, a clock and a castle 1:20 #10 West Liberty 3:39 #9 Loveland 5:44 #8 Akron's Stan Hywet 7:38 #7 Cleveland's Little Italy 9:46 #6 Minster & the Cross-Tipped Churches 12:18 #5 Sugarcreek 14:30 #4 Mariemont 16:27 #3 Over-the-Rhine 18:25 #2 German Village 20:41 #1 Zoar 24:07 Next time SOURCES Home values and population: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates; 2020 Census Ohio History Connection (Zoar); National Trust for Historic Preservation (2012 endangered list); US Army Corps of Engineers (Zoar levee) Piatt Castles; Loveland Castle / Knights of the Golden Trail; Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (Case Western Reserve University) American Planning Association (Great Places: Mariemont, Over-the-Rhine, German Village); German Village Society Village of Sugarcreek; Ohio Swiss Festival; Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics; Minster Oktoberfest