National Christmas Center 3427 Lincoln Highway Paradise, Pennsylvania update: The Collection has been acquired by the Star Barn Complex and is set to be on display by Christmas 2021. read more about that development here! I normally would have posted this a little closer to Christmas but I...

1960’s Era McDonald’s Sign (removed in 2016) 1755 Columbia Avenue Lancaster, Pennsylvania   I was riding around in Lancaster today with no particular destination in mind. When I passed the McDonald’s on Columbia Avenue, I did a double-take. The old Sixties Era Single Arch...

Rooster Barn Bridge Valley Road Columbia, Pennsylvania   If you’re out scouting for “wonders”, it’s fortuitous when you can find two of them that are in very close proximity! I originally set my course to find an amazing rooster mural. I’d happened upon it on...

English Brothers Beverage 62 Hershey Road Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania   Another great mural by artist Wayne Fettro. Mr. Fettro’s work is featured throughout Pennsylvania (many of my favorites are along the Lincoln Highway). This, however, is one of several in and around Lancaster...

Whoopie Pie Festival 2013 Hershey Farm Restaurant & Inn Hartman Bridge Road Ronks, Pennsylvania     The Whoopie Pie Festival generally takes place just after Labor Day. The 2017 Festival is Saturday, September 9th. If you happen to be in the Lancaster County area next weekend check it...

World’s Largest Whoopie Pie Whoopie Pie Festival 2013 Hershey Farm & Inn Ronks, Pennsylvania – Wendyvee This is it … according to the organizers of the Whoopie Pie Festival. Enough to make a dentist cringe. I present the World’s Largest Whoopie Pie.   Tags:...

Milbee Radio & TV 100 Winnemore Alley Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Here is something that you don’t see very often anymore … an honest-to-goodness television repair shop that’s still in business! I initially found Milbee’s when I made a wrong turn after visiting...

The Turkey Hill Experience 301 Linden Street Columbia, Pennsylvania   In the spring of 2010, I learned that the dairy/convenience store empire, Turkey Hill Dairy, planned to renovate the forlorn remains of the 20,000-square-foot Ashley & Bailey Silk Mill and turn it into the Turkey Hill...

Moose Theatre Marquee Moose Lodge 596 18 North Market Street Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania The marquee on the Loyal Order of Moose building in Elizabethtown has long outlived the life of the cinema that once operated there. The theater has been closed for decades (a gentleman walking by when I...

National Watch & Clock Museum 514 Poplar Street Columbia, Pennsylvania September 25th, 2010 was the Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day (courtesy of Toyota, Microsoft, and Citgo). Museum Day provides an opportunity to visit one museum, from a huge selection of museums across the nation, for...

The Dungeon Columbia Market House 15 South Third Street Columbia, Pennsylvania (now closed)   So what do you do when you have a few unexpected hours to kill on a beautiful Friday afternoon? Well, I suppose you could go out in search of the nearest dungeon. That’s what I did! Columbia is...

Amos the “Amish Giant” Hershey Farm Restaurant 240 Hartman Bridge Road Ronks, Pennsylvania   I took one of my famous “turn left, turn right , turn right, turn left” rides and ended up in the Lancaster area. Amos resides at the Hershey Farm Restaurant & Inn. Before...

Dutch Haven 2857 East Lincoln Highway Ronks, Pennsylvania   If I recall correctly, I used to beg my parents to stop here on our way to Ocean City when I was little. So I’m in the region — I have to stop, right? I suppose that some childhood wishes are best left unfulfilled. Yet it...

Fulton Steamboat Inn 1 Hartman Bridge Road Route 30 Ronks, Pennsylvania Ahhh, a Steamboat right smack in the middle of Route 30 in Lancaster.   This is tacky . . . but it is what I refer to as “Tacky-Nouveau”. TN places are tacky, yet well-kept enough not to have the charm and...

The Outhouse Village of Dutch Delights (sadly, it’s now closed) Ronks, Pennsylvania     This place gets 4 Stars for having an Amish Peep Show and a Man-eating Chicken (you had to be there). Lots of gag gifts and exhibits. Sort of fun . . . . but suffers from being too successful....