More Fun Along the Lincoln Highway

Picking up from two posts ago, here are some more sights along the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania (with one extra). The "Coffee Pot" in Bedford is an example of novelty architecture. It fell into major disrepair before being restored and relocated by the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor. It's a tiny building, and you can't go inside.

Bedford is also home to a cool old art deco Gulf station that has been operated by the same family for generations.

This train station is a museum in Everett, just east of Bedford, but it was not open on our visit.

The Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor's main goal is to promote one of the road's best-preserved stretches through Pennsylvania. One of the ways they do this is by getting local trade schools to create "roadside giant" sculptures, like this quarter. Other examples include a giant gas pump, Packard, and fruit truck.

It's easy to tell which year this log church was built. Open to the public, it has a wine glass pulpit and a perilous upper balcony.

The popular name of the view below is "seven mile stretch." We set our odometer, and it came out as a lot less than seven miles!

A special sight along the Lincoln Highway is these concrete markers. Planted during a cross-country promotion trip by the Boy Scouts in 1928, these markers' installation was the last hurrah before the Lincoln began to fade out of the mainstream. There are only a hundred or so left in their original locations, which can range from a parking lot to a private lawn (below right).

This lookout was once the location of the famous "Ship Hotel," which claimed that you could see three states and seven counties from this spot. What do you think?

This is a pretty big leap forward in history, but an offbeat stop along the Lincoln is the "Big Mac Museum." It's not so much a museum as a few displays in a McDonald's, with the "World's Largest Big Mac" (!!!) in the Play Place.

Irwin, PA - where the "museum" is located - was the headquarters of the franchisee whose chain invented the sandwich. However, the restaurant at which the Big Mac was actually first served is less than ten minutes from my house.

Switching gears once again, this time off the Lincoln Highway, here's a wacky landmark in West Virginia, a collection of large fiberglass statues at a private home. You're allowed to stop and take pictures. It's a destination of sorts for fans of "Muffler Man" statues (like the one at center).

I don't know if there's anywhere else where you can see fiberglass statues riding a roller coaster.

As you pull away, make sure not to miss Santa!

I hope you've enjoyed these roadside finds!