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Does Dayton have anything?

I drove through it. Was not remotely compelled to stop.

No. 

Does Dayton have anything?

It has a Wendy’s that I stopped at about ten years ago for a double stacker (specifically at the Huber Heights exit off I-70), while making one of my longer morning drives between Indianapolis and Columbus.

It was during that leg of travel that my radio picked up WTUE 104.7 FM, Dayton's Classic Rock station. Between blasting John Mellencamp and Van Halen and Beastie Boys hits, the midday DJ kept playing recordings of a bird franticly squawking. Finally, after another round of songs, the DJ came clean to his unsuspecting audience. The bird squawking was an audio recording lifted from his in-home security camera that had captured footage of his girlfriend’s pet macaw being attacked and killed by his spotted python. His pet snake had broken into the bird’s cage, and the DJ was still angry at his girlfriend for dumping him over the incident. He blamed her for “pushing” him into house-sitting her bird despite him “fully warning her” of his pet python. The DJ then played a Whitesnake song – “Here I Go Again.”

To this day I remember the call sign of this rock station – WTUE – because later on during my drive into Columbus I called the station’s request line to ask about what I’d concluded sounded like borderline animal abuse by repeatedly airing the noisy death of a bird – through the lunch hour of a dead, overcast, and iced-over winter Saturday no less. The call screener who picked up the phone had the voice of ten-year-old and denied having any sway into what the DJ wanted to say.

Since then, I have concluded that for as uneventful and unremarkable as Dayton appears, it must be full of amusing weirdos. There is a Sonic Drive-In closer to that same I-70 exit in case you’re wondering about variety. Beyond that, I’ve heard Dayton has an Aviation Museum that’s worth visiting.

Depends on what you are looking for?

Most places have cool restaurants or breweries at this point.  Unless you want to go to NYC or Chicago or LA or Miami or Nashville or Vegas, you have to find your fun, and most cities have it.  I went to Louisville for the first time last year, and it was 95+ every day, but I had a blast.

Florida coasts on weather.  Tampa and Jacksonville are Dayton but warmer with beach access.  And that's not nothing, but those cities suck if you don't like overcrowded beaches, retirees and bath salts

People with a boner to actually travel to watch 1st round NCAA games 11-16 seeds, are not suddenly woo'd to go only because said game which tips in 48 hours on a Tuesday is in a city with 'entertainment.'         I'd say mix it up, go to cities that want the event and will act like hosts and make it fun for the hard core attendees.     huge cities won't give two shits for this.    * 

As ELA said, if you can't find your own attractions in any city for a quick trip you aren't trying.    I've been to all 50 states (yeah, not every 'city') but there are very few places I've been to that i found to be irredeemable.       

*I wouldn't pay to attend these 'first 18/12/whatever' no matter where they are being played, maybe rare exception being Hinkle Fieldhouse, because it is 10 miles from my house.

as an aside, one of 'my' industry's big events made a catastrophic decision to have its event in Vegas, even in March with 'perfect' weather.   Vegas$$$    historically it was in So Fla. in Feb/Mar.   Our industry is about 75% eastern time zone....in a compliance/regulated business.    It's been a 90%   'WTF kind of decision was this?'  We don't do Vegas in our biz.... fly us all out here, burn all that travel time.  The event is basically folding now.

I've never been a fan of cold cheeseburgers

Dayton has a restaurant called Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers

They're all over Phoenix.
Prob saves money on menus.  

Well that just makes me want to get in the car and rush to Dayton!