When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

This huge stew pot is the focal point of the "Community Soup" event, which honors tradition and soup.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The headquarters of the prestigious World Food Prize celebrates the heroes in the fight against hunger, has no cafeteria.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.