Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Iowa

While in Iowa, you might enjoy a visit to:

Pat Acton uses his spare time to build impressively-detailed, giant models of buildings, spaceships, whatever, out of hundreds of thousands of wooden matchsticks.
~35 miles from Vinton.

A prescient bit of civic speculation for Riverside's future son and Star Trek's original starship captain. Look for the Enterprise replica and other Trek themed fun.
~53 miles from Vinton.

A 35-minute guided tour through a scary cavern with low ceilings -- in a boat.
~70 miles from Vinton.

Built in Holland and shipped over to the US, the windmill is a focal point for a tulip-happy town with Dutch settler ancestry.
~69 miles from Vinton.

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