Not far from the Teddy Bear factory is another great place:

BEN AND JERRY'S
WATERBURY, VERMONT
From observation windows, you can watch state-of-the-art machines transform cream, sugar and chunks of fruit and candy into approximately 190,000 pints of Ben and Jerry's ice cream daily. Visitors get free flavor-of-the-day samples. Equally cool are the sprawling hillside grounds and the visitor's center filled with interactive games like the Flavor Wheel and the Hall of Fame, which humorously documents this company's offbeat history.


If your that far north you might as well check it out too!