cleveland has some cool shit if you know where to look.
They did (do?) monkey-head transplants at Case Western. There's a kickass toy store somewhere in the suburbs...can't remember exactly where but it is stuffed from floor to ceiling with every sort of vintage toy imaginable, complete with a giant card-catalog thing from an old library whose drawers are crammed with crackerjack toys and stuff like that. There's a really good bookstore that used to be a Twinkie factory and still has unfluffed twinkie filling in pipes on the walls.
Last time I was there was a pilgrimage to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in '04 to see the Ramones display case there...wanted to take a picture by it only to find that they'd just instituted some absolutely-no-photography thing and confiscated all cameras at the door.
