The Corn Palace

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In Mitchell, South Dakota there stands a massive building covered in murals that are made completely from… corn! READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-corn-palace-mitchell-south-dakota

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0:00.0	Last summer, I got a postcard.
0:06.0	Howdy, Johanna.
0:08.0	This was our first stop.
0:10.0	They changed the corn designs annually.
0:13.0	Now leaving Glacier on a rainy day,
0:15.0	heading for hot springs.
0:17.0	Love mom and dad.
0:20.0	Should I say where the card came from?
0:23.0	Sure.
0:24.0	A corn palace.
0:26.0	Oh!
0:33.0	I'm Johanna Mayer, and this is Atlas Obscura,
0:36.0	a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.
0:40.0	Today, we visit the Mitchell, South Dakota corn palace.
0:45.0	A massive building covered in murals,
0:48.0	made completely from corn.
0:52.0	After this.
0:56.0	This fall, when the leaves turn gold, and the harvest is in,
1:15.0	come, visit us.
1:18.0	The corn palace will be celebrating.
1:21.0	The streets will be filled with people.
1:24.0	You will see it for what it really is.
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