Category: Roadside Attractions

Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller

Date: April 11, 2026

The mound, the largest conical mound in Clark County, is the second largest in Ohio next to the larger Adena Mound in Miamisburg, Ohio. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the mound was reportedly used by Gen. George Rogers Clark in 1780 as a vantage point prior to the attack on the Shawnee Village of Picawey located two miles to the north. The mound is 40 feet high and there has been no evidence that burials exist in the mound nor have any Adena artifacts have been found.

Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller, Nick, Jacque, Elizabeth & John Kelly

Date: April 21, 2026

This was a fun, unique roadside attraction restaurant as we celebrated Jacque’s birthday. You could grab sushi, food and desserts from a conveyor that snaked throughout the restaurant. We opted to order and within minutes a train or truck on small tracks pulled a dish behind it with our order. The grandkids excitedly watched it travel towards our table where we “offloaded” our meal. Later, a giant white robot brought drinks and a birthday dessert down the aisle to our table.

Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller

Date: April 21, 2026

I posed with founder Dave Thomas’s statue and tried to steal his Frostee. This elegant, decorated Wendy’s Restaurant not only served its great food but had a room dedicated as a museum to Dave Thomas and Wendy’s restaurant’s growth. It was very educational to read about his humble early life, the founding of Wendy’s, its growth to franchising nationally and internationally and his support for adoption. I enjoyed a photo of the “Where’s the Beef” advertisement.

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.