Originally built in 1892 to celebrate the state's agricultural excellence, the World's Only Corn Palace now attracts approximately 500,000 tourists every year. Industrial exhibits, dances, shows, rodeos, and farmers markets are part of the attraction, but the sole reason many visitors make the detour off Highway 90 in Mitchell is to ogle the larger-than-life murals adorning the outside of the building, which are made entirely from halved corn cobs. Each year, digital media and design students from Dakota Wesleyan University add new murals, requiring hundreds of thousands of corn cobs to complete.
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