Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Iowa

While in Iowa, you might enjoy a visit to:

Pat Acton builds impressively-detailed, giant models of buildings, spaceships, whatever, out of hundreds of thousands of wooden matchsticks.
~35 miles from Vinton.

This is the place. Photo-worthy monument marks the spot, which is behind a downtown hair salon.
~52 miles from Vinton.

A 35-minute guided tour through a scary cavern with low ceilings -- in a boat. Opened in 1955.
~70 miles from Vinton.

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