3. Pay Your Respects at Ben and Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard
You’re going to want to stop at the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory when driving anywhere near Waterbury, VT anyways. Just don’t miss the flavor graveyard around back once you’ve toured the factory and got your scoop. The socially conscious company has produced a wide variety of unique flavors throughout the years, and rather than just discontinuing unsuccessful ones into brand oblivion, they are forever immortalized on headstones in that comically quirky Ben and Jerry’s style. You can see tributes to such retired flavors as Vermonty Python, Fossil Fuel and Economic Crunch. Consider this one of the most delicious roadside attractions in America.
4. Hum Hail to the Chief at Jimmy Carter’s Giant Peanut
Most presidents have some sort of statue or monument to honor them – think the Lincoln Memorial or Mount Rushmore. Well, Jimmy Carter, the 39th American president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has a 13 foot smiling peanut. It’s rather fitting that this former peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia is immortalized in this wacky way. The sculpture was put up in 1976 during Carter’s presidential campaign and is still standing proud (sort of). You’ll probably grin as wide as the peanut does when you see it.
