Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Iowa

While in Iowa, you might enjoy a visit to:

A cross-country tour of a miniature USA, using 25 Lionel trains running on 4,000 feet of track.
~24 miles from Johnston.

Fancy multi-million dollar museum opened May 2015. Features big outdoor statue of The Duke, his 1970s station wagon, and tours of the four-room house where he was bornl.
~28 miles from Johnston.

Bulbous, bright yellow municipal water tower of "Ol' Smiley" was erected in 1979. It's the happy town ambassador, where the slogan once was, "Adair: It'll make you smile!" Only town in America with a smile face water tower and a monument for Jesse James.
~50 miles from Johnston.

Pat Acton builds impressively-detailed, giant models of buildings, spaceships, whatever, out of hundreds of thousands of wooden matchsticks.
~62 miles from Johnston.

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