Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Iowa

While in Iowa, you might enjoy a visit to:

15-foot-tall Gnome statue is the star of Reiman Gardens at Iowa State University.
~33 miles from Williams.

Venue of the last performance of rockers Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper on Feb. 2, 1959, before their plane crashed nearby. The ballroom is preserved as it looked in 1959.
~46 miles from Williams.

Fiberglass statue mascots of the Anderson Erickson Dairy. The calf is the size of a full-grown cow.
~61 miles from Williams.

Pat Acton uses his spare time to build impressively-detailed, giant models of buildings, spaceships, whatever, out of hundreds of thousands of wooden matchsticks.
~47 miles from Williams.

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