Large Rotating Ear of Corn

As you drive across America, each city, each state, proudly welcomes you into its borders with some sort of greeting signpost. Many are standard issue billboards announcing the town name or state name, the motto, the population, the fact that their girls softball team won the championships in 1972, that a president was born there, that they are the home of tax free shopping.

Driving down Highway 141 through Iowa you may come across a different type of town marker. Perched at the entrance to Coon Rapids, Iowa, "In the Heart of Corn Country" is a sign not only welcoming you to the fair town, but also displaying a rotating piece of corn so big if you tried to eat it you'd be picking remnants from your teeth for weeks.

Standing at about 10-feet tall this ear of corn slowly rotates as an American flies above it. Talk about genetically modified vegetables!

And in case you don't believe me, here's a video of it rotating!

Site: Large Rotating Ear of Corn
Location: Hwy 141, Coon Rapids, IA
Cost: Free to see.
Hours: Always visible.
Date: September 1, 2008