Category: Roadside Attractions

Investigation Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller

Date: May 18, 2026

Considering that a month ago I stopped at the Wendy’s/Dave Thomas Museum in Columbus, Ohio, I was compelled to stop at another food related roadside attraction, Col. Harlan Saunders/ KRC Museum in Corbin. This site was where the Colonel had his first restaurant in 1932 and his original gas pump is outside. The KFC restaurant has for no additional charge many attached rooms full of KFC memorabilia, giveaways, signs, a kitchen, informational kiosks and TV’s showing the history of how Col. Sanders started and grew the KFC franchises. And best yet, I bought and ate delicious KCF chicken which truly is finger lickin’ good. This is a must stop, especially if you are hungry.

Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller

Date: May 7, 2026

Harry’s offers a wide selection of burgers and side dishes. Piggy’s Ice Cream was not open when we visited. In between the two buildings was the Hooterville Jail which you could pose behind the jail bars. Next door, various animal sculptures adorned the rooftop.

Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller

Date: May 7, 2026

This was very unique as a John Deere tractor is located on top of a thirty+ foot silo located at a family farm and apple orchard.

Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller

Date: May 16, 2026

Although this roadside attraction cow was very large and in good condition, I still expected it to be much bigger (although it is larger than the cow in Waynesville, Ohio). It is easy to find and stands by the entrance to a flea market.

The EAA Chapter 48 hosts this event on the first Sunday in May at the Moraine Airpark. It is the nation’s longest running same day continuous fly-in now in its 66^th year. As a member of the Wright Seaplane Base Inc. club, which keeps alive the history of Orville Wrights 100 hydroaeroplane or seaplane test flights between 1912 and 1914 on the Miami River in Moraine & West Carrollton, I was volunteering at the WSBI tent. The event featured over 50 vintage, experimental or modern planes, great food and helicopter rides. My sister and I took our first ever helicopter ride on a Robinson R-44 (built in 2008) and enjoyed a thrilling ride with outstanding views of the Miami River, Dayton area, and suburbs. The grandkids enjoyed sitting in the plane’s cockpits.

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

Date: April 21, 2026

In 1999 an artist created this house with a gold dome (which is no longer gold colored). Windows and dome cut-outs in the shape of household furniture and items provide light in the small house. The house, only 20’ x 24’ and made from copper and bronze, sits on the edge of a 200-foot diameter circle.

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.