The Man of Steel was born not on Krypton, but in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood back in 1933, when two high school students, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, dreamed up the caped hero.

One of the state’s giant statues of a Native American figure is headed south to stand among other nostalgic figures in a growing museum on Route 66. The 20-foot-tall fiberglass figure of a shirtless ...