Strange Tourist Attractions, 4-8

The following may be strange tourist attractions, but they're certainly not boring.

4. Corn Palace

The city of Mitchell, South Dakota, proudly calls itself the "Corn Capital of the World," and it even has a palace in which to celebrate. The Mitchell Corn Palace, originally constructed in 1892, is now an auditorium with Russian-style turrets and towers and murals that local artists create each year out of corn and other South Dakota grains. After the annual fall harvest, pigeons and squirrels are allowed to devour the palace's murals until the next year when the process begins anew.

5. Jolly Green Giant Statue

Ho, ho ho! The Jolly Green Giant remains the towering symbol of the Green Giant food company, located in Blue Earth, Minnesota. Since 1979, the 55-foot-tall statue, who sports a size 78 shoe, honors the third-most-recognized advertising icon of the 20th century.

6. Lucy the Elephant

Looming 65 feet over the beach at Margate, New Jersey, Lucy the Elephant is the only example of "zoomorphic architecture" left in the United States. With staircases in her legs leading to rooms inside, the wide-eyed elephant was originally built in 1881 as a real-estate promotion. Over the years Lucy has served as a summer home, a tavern, a hotel, and a tourist attraction. Relocation in 1970 spared Lucy from demolition, and she received a loving face-lift and restoration in 2000.

7. Albert, the World's Largest Bull

Located in Audubon, Iowa, Albert, the world's largest bull, stands 30 feet tall and weighs in at 45 tons . . . of concrete. Named after local banker Albert Kruse, the monster Hereford statue was built in the 1960s for Operation T-Bone Days, an event held each September to honor the days when local cattle would board trains to the Chicago stockyards. As an interesting side note, Albert's internal steel frame is made from dismantled Iowa windmills.

8. World's Largest Hockey Stick and Puck

Leave it to hockey-hungry Canadians to build the world's largest
hockey stick and puck. The stick, which is made of Douglas fir beams reinforced with steel, is 205 feet long, weighs 61,000 pounds, and is 40-times larger than life-size. It was created for Expo '86 in Vancouver, British Columbia, before being sent to Duncan, where it has been a popular tourist attraction since 1988.

On the last page of our list of strange tourist attractions you'll find out where Superman's hometown is located.

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