You can find rocking chairs and mailboxes anywhere. But the town of Casey, Illinois, is the only place with a rocking chair that’s 56 feet tall. That’s as tall as a five-story building!
Down the street, there’s a giant mailbox. It’s so immense, you could fit more than 5,000 regular mailboxes inside it! What are these giant objects doing here?
They were made by a man named Jim Bolin. He grew up in Casey. He wanted more people to know about his hometown.
So he built the world’s largest rocking chair, the world’s largest mailbox, and other giant things. Now people come from all over the country to see the big stuff.
The rocking chair took two years to build. At first, it really did rock! But people weren’t sure it was safe for such a big chair to rock. It seemed dangerous. So they made the chair stay still.
The big mailbox is a real, functioning mailbox. It actually works! You can go inside it and mail a letter.