Atlas Obscura
Allen County Historical Society and Museum in Lima, Ohio
If the entirety of this museum wasn’t so peculiar already, the James E. Grosjean Room at the Allen County Historical Museum would be a place of magic surrealism; a tactile portal to the past in the midst of the proverbial Rust Belt town built quickly on oil. Lima once had a bustling trolley system, the prominent Faurot Opera House, industry, culture and promise. But now it’s easy to see the dec…