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Featured Attractions
Battle Hill Museum of Natural History
Battle Creek, Iowa
Small town museum stuffed with dead animals, created by a guy stuffed with every fact about them.
Albert the Bull
Audubon, Iowa
Albert, pride of the town of Audubon, is a formidable concrete replica of the perfect Hereford Bull.
Ax Murder House
Villisca, Iowa
The 1912 maniac who killed the people in this house is still unknown, but that doesn't stop travelers from wanting to sleep over.
Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk
Riverside, Iowa
Speculative bit of civic pride for Riverside's future son and Star Trek's original starship captain.
Grotto of the Redemption
West Bend, Iowa
Massive religious grotto built by Father Paul Dobberstein from 1912 until his death in 1954.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Adair: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Algona: World's Largest Chee-to [tips]
- Audubon: Albert the Bull
- Battle Creek: Battle Hill Museum of Natural History
- Battle Creek: Iowa's Wandering Moose
- Brandon: Iowa's Largest Frying Pan [tips]
- Britt: Hobo Museum [tips]
- Burlington: World's Crookedest Street
- Clear Lake: Buddy Holly Crash Site [tips]
- Colfax: Trainland USA [tips]
- Coon Rapids: Rotating Ear of Corn
- Council Bluffs: Black Squirrel Capital of the World
- Council Bluffs: Golden Spike Controversy
- Council Bluffs: Largest Revolving Jail [tips]
- Davenport: Mother Goose Land [tips]
- Des Moines: Giant Cow and Calf [tips]
- Dyersville: Field of Dreams
- Eldon: American Gothic House [tips]
- ElK Horn: Only Working Danish Windmill In America
- Estherville: Meteorite [tips]
- Exira: Plow in the Tree
- Fairfield: Golden Dome of Pure Knowledge [tips]
- Festina: Tiny Church
- Fort Dodge: Replica Cardiff Giant [tips]
- Ida Grove: Castles of Ida Grove
- Kimballton: America's Little Mermaid
- Logan: Museum of Religious Arts
- Marquette: Pink elephant
- McGregor: Spook Cave
- Muscatine: Fanta-suites [tips]
- Pella: Dutch Town and Windmill [tips]
- Pocahontas: Indian statue [tips]
- Riverside: Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk
- Sheldon: Collection of Exotic Dirt [tips]
- Sioux City: Trinity Heights: Giant Jesus and Mary
- Sioux City: Steel Replica of War Eagle
- Sioux City: Anti-Booze Churchman Killed Here
- Stanton: Mrs. Olson Coffee Pot water tower
- Strawberry Point: World's Largest Strawberry
- Villisca: Ax Murder House
- Waukon: House of Clocks
- West Bend: Grotto of the Redemption
- Winterset: Birthplace of John Wayne
