The World’s Largest Big Mac – North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
There are moments in your life when something crosses your path that you didn’t know you’d want to see until the moment you actually see it. This giant Big Mac falls squarely in that...
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Three Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco Ghost Signs – NY/PA
These three Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco ghost signs are all within a radius of about 20 miles of one another. If you happen to be out ghost hunting, here are three pins for your...
Ghost Sign: Kaufmann’s Department Store – Donora, Pennsylvania
This weekend, I caught the first episode of a new show on HBO Max called The Last Wright. “A mother and daughter team take on the task of building Riverrock, a home based on...
Cubanola Cigar & Ceresota Flour Ghost Sign Combo – Montrose, Pennsylvania
Though most of the coloring is gone and what we’re left with is a very faded wisp of a ghost, the unmistakable block lettering banner and the faintest hint of blue of Cubanola Cigar...
Pennsylvania’s Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor – Roadside Giants
The stretch of Lincoln Highway which passes through Pennsylvania is a big tourism draw. The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor lists their mission as: “To inspire others to travel the 200-mile Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania,...
Pennsylvania’s Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor – Murals
While road tripping is made up in part of sheer serendipity; discovering things while you float free and unfettered in the world, the other part of that equation is seeing something which you’d previously...
Winter Wandering: Two Mail Pouch Ghost Signs – Lisbon, Ohio
This winter I’ve made it a point to not languish at home and to get out and do some roadtripping. Even though everything here on the east coast is freezing cold, salty, and snowy,...
Snapshot: Trainer’s Midway Diner Neon Sign
It would be difficult to count the number of times that I’ve zipped passed the Trainer’s Midway Diner neon sign just off of Route 78 in Bethel, Pennsylvania. Let’s just say a few and...
A Freezing Cold Drive in Western Pennsylvania
Taking advantage of a long January weekend, I set off to western Pennsylvania to look at… “stuff” and to just drive. I wish I better understood the draw to just get out and wander....
Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn: My White Whale a Decade Later
Last summer, I posted about finally relocating where I’d seen this white Mail Pouch barn. While I was out near Pittsburgh last weekend, I stopped to see it again. It’d been over a decade...
Ghost Sign: Day & Night Tobacco – Lancaster, Pa.
A pin for this location on Seymour Street in Lancaster, Pa. has been on my Google map for a few years now. I’m not sure how I became aware of this ghost sign. Day...
Village Diner on Route 6 – Milford, Pennsylvania
After many years of passing the Village Diner on Route 6 in Milford, Pennsylvania and not stopping, I finally did it. I stopped in for breakfast on a late-summer morning in ’23. The experience...
General Green Mural in Greensburg, Pennsylvania
It’s funny how your mind can play tricks on you. How many times in your life have you heard someone say something to the effect of “we see what we want to see”? Standing...
The Big Banana Split – Latrobe, Pennsylvania
If your town is going to be famous for being “the home of” something, I suppose the banana split is a pretty good something. Even on a cold winters day, this giant, sweet treat...
Red Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn – Boswell, Pennsylvania
Over the long January weekend, I spent some time wandering the backroads in western Pennsylvania. I seem to have good luck with finding interesting sights out towards Pittsburgh. One of my favorite sights was...
Muffler Man – The Greensburg, Pennsylvania Glow Up!
The first time I visited the Greensburg, Pennsylvania muffler man, it was a cold winters day in 2009. Objectively, he was looking a bit worse for wear. The most noticeable flaw being, that he...
The Daily Review Building – Towanda, Pennsylvania
In the late summer of 2023, I found myself passing through the Pennsylvania town of Towanda on Route 6. On the north end of town, not far from the lovely former Red Rose Diner...
Remember the Red Rose Diner on Route 6 – Towanda, Pennsylvania
Back in 2016, I made a stop on Route 6 in Towanda, Pennsylvania to enjoy lunch at the counter of the Red Rose Diner. As I was leaving, the owner took my picture as...
The Old Meshoppen Firehouse – Route 6, Pennsylvania
When you don’t live in or routinely travel through a place you aren’t able to witness the incremental changes that occur there day in and day out. As a casual traveler who may only...
The Beautiful Welcome to Honesdale Mural – Pennsylvania
When I pulled in to the town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, my eyes were immediately drawn to this beautiful Welcome to Honesdale mural painted on the back of a building. I didn’t spot a date...
