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Casey, the town of world's largest things
2011
Casey, Illinois
Jud McCranie · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A pipeline contractor started building oversized objects to bring people off the interstate into a town of two and a half thousand, and kept going: the world's largest wind chime, rocking chair, mailbox, golf tee, pencil and more, a dozen of them certified. It worked. The shops are open.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: city-level
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