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Title: Interesting buildings you see on your travels
Post by: golden eagle on May 28, 2010, 03:40:05 PM
There's a restaurant just south of Florence, MS called Jerry's Catfish House. It's in the shape of an igloo.
Title: Re: Interesting buildings you see on your travels
Post by: agentsteel53 on May 28, 2010, 03:52:29 PM
the meteor crater in Arizona has Subwaydome 2061*, which is a Subway restaurant inside a Buckminster Fuller style geodesic dome.

* or any other number greater than 2006, depending on the current mood of Dan and me.  We stumbled across it in 2006.
Title: Re: Interesting buildings you see on your travels
Post by: Ian on May 28, 2010, 04:01:52 PM
New England Pest Control's giant blue bug along I-95 in Providence, RI.
Title: Re: Interesting buildings you see on your travels
Post by: huskeroadgeek on May 28, 2010, 04:50:51 PM
There's a website devoted to this sort of thing: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/ (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/). It's really about odd tourist attractions in general, but there's a lot of odd looking buildings and structures documented.
I've also seen a PBS special devoted to this too.
Title: Re: Interesting buildings you see on your travels
Post by: PAHighways on June 06, 2010, 01:04:39 AM
I can think of two right in Bedford, PA:  Dunkle's Gulf (http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages/lincolnHighway/GulfGasStation.jpg), possibly the only Art-Deco Gulf station left standing, and The Coffee Pot (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Bedford,+PA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.160552,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Bedford,+Pennsylvania&ll=40.02317,-78.517249&spn=0.003911,0.009645&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.02313,-78.51716&panoid=SDefw33jSVk3vtj58YY1gg&cbp=12,198.97,,0,0.8), which the organization (http://www.lhhc.org/) I'm involved with helped restore.