Dont you know, that:
The potato is the world’s 4th most important food crop after rice, wheat and corn.
The potato is grown in more countries than any crop but corn, about in 125 countries throughout the world.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the world’s largest potato weigh is 18 pounds, 4 ounces.

More than one in ten potatoes produced in the U.S. is exported.
Europeans consume twice as many potatoes as Americans per year.
A quarter of all the potatoes that are grown in Britain are made into chips – that’s around 1.5 million tonnes each year
Namibians each eat an average of 110 kilograms of potatoes every year – not quite as much as the Germans consume.
Potatoes are second only to milk as the most consumed food in America.
Religious leaders denounced the potato because it wasn’t mentioned in the Bible.
In 1778 Prussia and Austria fought the Potatoe War in which each side tried to starve the other by consuming their potatoe crop.
During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush of the 1890′s, potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded them for gold.
In 1995, the potato was the first vegetable taken into space with the space shuttle Columbia. It was first time any food was ever grown in space.

Potatoes are celebrated with potato festivals in many countries through the world.

There are poptato festivals in US as well then you can find to visit the nearest one:
Wayland New York Potato Festival
North Carolina Potato Festival
Spring Valley, Ohio Potato Festival
Posen, Michigan Potato Festival
Mantua, Ohio Potato Festival
Savannah PotatoFest
Manhattan Montana Potato Festival