9. Woodland Cemetery & Arboretum

Originally opened in 1843, the 200-acre Woodland Cemetery is one of the largest garden-type cemeteries in the country, and boasts over 3000 trees. About 100,000 monuments dot the rolling landscape; the chapel, which features beautiful Tiffany windows, office and entrance gate are on the National Register of Historic Places. Many of Dayton's significant historical figures rest here, including Orville and Wilbur Wright, Col. Edward Deeds, C.J. McLin Jr, and the Kettering and Patterson families. Other notables: humorist Erma Bombeck, poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and the Owen Stanley family, gypsy queens and kings from England. The office has an audiotaped tour that visitors may borrow.   (© 10Best)

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