Follow me around the world
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller, Nick, Jacque, Elizabeth & John Kelly
Date: November 21, 2025
Just off Riverside Drive on the Hallifax River, locals have been placing gnomes here at this Roadside Attraction since 2003. Our grandkids loved this place as there were over 300 different gnomes displayed on the ground or hanging in the huge tree. We will bring our own personalized gnomes to add to this display our next trip back to Florida.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller, Nick, Jacque, Elizabeth & John Kelly
Date: November 21, 2025
On the beach in front of our condo every year there was a sign about the 1896 wreck of the Nathan F. Cobb which ran aground there (Photo#1). This American schooner built in 1890 (Photo #2), was 167 feet long and was sailing for New York with a cargo of lumber when a storm stripped away her three masts disabling the boat. I had heard rumors that locals took the lumber and the wooden planks of the boat and made a house. It is true.
A man named Billy Fagen salvaged wood from the boat and built a cottage in 1897 (Photo#3) on Orchard Lane in Ormond Beach which is still used today (Photo#4).
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: November 22, 2025
This fully restored naval torpedo is just outside of the Georgia Welcome Center as you go north on I-95. It is probably there due to nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in nearby St. Marys.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: November 23, 2025
A rocket themed, hotdog related roadside attraction restaurant. Rockets all over the outside, space themed displays (including old Tom Swift Space Pilot books) on the inside giving a nostalgic vibe to the place. The restaurant has been here since the 1990’s. I don’t usually eat meat, but I went off the grid and got a loaded clow dog with French fries. Delicious!
Expedition Team: Dave Miller
Date: November 22, 2025
Outside of the closed Wild Bills Biker Bar is a motorcycle made from wood. The paint has deteriorated in some areas, but it is still cool to look at.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Nick Kelly
Date: November 21, 2025
Next to the Municipal Building sits a unique WWI era train box car one of 48 donated to the United States by France in response to the 1947 U. S. Friendship Train as the US had sent $40 million in food and supplies. Inside City Hall is a display of many gifts taken from the box car. The box cars were called 40 and 8’s as they carried either 40 men or 8 horses during WWI and WWII.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: November 19, 2025
An unusual roadside attraction that you don’t see every day. Designated an Historical District on the National Register of Historic Places, the town is the oldest active spiritual community in the southeastern United states. It was founded in 1894 by Northern spiritualists as a location to spend the winter months. Nicknamed the “Psychic Center of the World”, a local told me over 50 psychic mediums and healers live here. We drove by Psychic Shops, a Healing Grotto, a Spiritualist Camp and many more. An elderly woman was sitting outside the C. Green’s Haunted History House and Museum Although I didn’t have time to explore an hour inside, I poked by head in the open door and saw aliens, cryptids and other scary displays. I must definitely return here on the next trip to Florida.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: November 24, 2025
This replica Mason Jar container, situated next to City Hall, dispensed 2,524 gallons of sweet tea on June 10, 2016, to set a new Guinness world record.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: November 14, 2025
This world class car museum contains hundreds of vintage cars but outside is a giant Goddess of Speed Hood Ornament ala a 1920’s Packard. The metallic woman with her hair flowing in the wind is incredibly large once you see me standing under it. Although I cannot confirm that this is the world’s largest car hood ornament, I cannot find another that claims that it is bigger.
Investigation Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: July 23, 2020
Okay, a cheesy but fun Roadside Attraction consisting of nothing more than a large, pink hippo with blood red zombie eyes.
