Location: The Flats
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What to do and see in The Flats, Ohio (OH): The Best Things to do
Whether rocking out to music legends inside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or viewing Monets and Picassos at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland is a city that mixes equal parts grit and sophistication. Nosh award-winning food in historic buildings, tip back some craft beers amid a Lake Erie beach party or cheer on a championship team with a hardball of locally distilled spirits. All in Cleveland.
Restaurants in Cleveland
1. Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 75 reviews
Reviewed By Barry905 - Welland, Canada
At the pavilion last weekend - great place for a concert - smaller venue so every seat is a great seat!! Beautiful location on the river front overlooking some of the downtown skyline of Cleveland!! Hopefully one of our favorite musicians will be booked here in the future so we can come back to the pavilion and Cleveland again very soon!!
2. Veterans' Memorial (Detroit-Superior) Bridge
3. Fountain of Eternal Life
4. The Flats
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 135 reviews
Reviewed By JimE782 - Gadsden, United States
We had visited the market in Ohio City and saw some interesting sites toward Lake Erie. We ended up in the Flats. An area that is shadowed by numerous bridges that cross the Cuyahoga river. What is characteristic about this area are the numerous Bascule bridges. A bascule bridge is a type of drawbridge that the entire bridge rotates up to 90 degrees off one end. My theory is as the steel business declined, the use of this area by the railroads eventually went a way and the bridges were opened and frozen. I tried to review on of the (at least) 3 Irish Bars in this area. The one I loved was the Flatiron. I've also reviewed Flannerys. This area is very close to the Tremont area. Check out my review of one of the churches there to learn more and see more pictures.
5. Greater Cleveland Aquarium
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 801 reviews
Did you know male seahorses give birth? That an archerfish can spit with deadly accuracy? That a giant Pacific octopus can solve puzzles? Or that some sharks lose up to 30,000 teeth in their lifetime? You can learn more about these and other amazing aquatic animals at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium. Nestled in the historic brick FirstEnergy Powerhouse, the boutique aquarium is filled with intriguing marine life from around the globe, an 11,000-gallon stingray touch pool and a 175-foot shark-filled seatube.
Reviewed By theflyinghens - Cleveland, United States
We visited the Greater Cleveland Aquarium with our 3 young children for the first time last week. First, I loved the transformation of an old building into something wonderful and so informational for our children. I was also very impressed with how much the aquarium offered in a smaller space. We've visited the Georgia Aquarium (one of the largest in the world) and honestly, I felt the Greater Cleveland Aquarium had much more hands on areas for my kiddos to enjoy. Much smaller crowds help it feel like a more personalized experience too! I loved the different themed areas. But the best had to be the 175ft long SeaTube, we loved watching the shark feeding from a different perspective! Shark feedings happen Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 3:30pm. We also were able to feed the sting-rays, and my kids LOVED that! What a special experience for them. Even if you don't participate in the feeding, you can still touch the stingrays. For little kids, we really enjoyed the Imagiquarium on the 2nd floor. It's a play space for children to let their imaginations run wild! They can prepare "fish food", observe shells and starfish under a microscope, pretend to be scuba divers and create their own larger than life aquarium. My husband wanted to add our only complaint (that didn't take away from our time there at all.) In the Imagiquarium is a valve and tube system to simulate what the Life Support System Technicians use to run the water and filter systems with a list of tasks for kids to accomplish to change the flow of water. However, all the pipes are connected together in the same grid without one-way check valves, so the pipes are always filled with water regardless of which valve is closed or opened. It seemed like a design flaw in something to teach hydraulics to kids.
