Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Iowa

While in Iowa, you might enjoy a visit to:

Wood statue of Seminole Indian leader (and the town's namesake) Osceola is 15 ft. tall, carved by artist Jesse Kuhns and installed in 1993.
~40 miles from Des Moines.

Built in Holland and shipped over to the US, the windmill is a focal point for a tulip-happy town with Dutch settler ancestry.
~39 miles from Des Moines.

Pat Acton uses his spare time to build impressively-detailed, giant models of buildings, spaceships, whatever, out of hundreds of thousands of wooden matchsticks.
~62 miles from Des Moines.

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