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All the United States New Mexico Alamogordo PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio
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PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio

This is one really big nut.

Alamogordo, New Mexico

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After a lifetime building his New Mexico pistachio farm, also known as PistachioLand, Alamogordo nut salesman Tom McGinn was memorialized with a roadside advertisement that now draws tourists from all over the country.

The World's Largest Pistachio stands 30-feet tall and was constructed using over five yards of concrete and 35 gallons of paint to give the enormous green nut a strangely real look. Like many oversized items littering the world's highways, the pistachio is there mainly to lure motorists into the McGinn's Pistachio Tree Ranch and Winery Gift Shop.

Unsurprisingly, there are a number of exotic, pistachio-based products for sale like chili-chocolate pistachio brittle and homemade pistachio milkshakes-- although nothing is as priceless as taking a "nutty" photo under the giant snack.   

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PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio
7320 US-54
Alamogordo, New Mexico, 88310
United States
32.996153, -105.989611
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