Benson's Wild Animal Farm once drew crowds with elephants, lions, gorillas and other animals before closing in 1987. The land is now a public park, but several structures from the attraction remain, including the distinctive former gorilla cage that visitors can walk into. It is an unusually intact fragment of a vanished roadside zoo.
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Source: Atlas Obscura