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The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

The World's Largest Bull.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.

Alongside a scenic road are the remains of crumbling World War II gun emplacement.

This remote piece of Cape Breton coast was the unceremonious landing site of the first solo, east-west transatlantic flight made by a female aviator.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

The remains of an attempt to carve a thriving metropolis from the forest, and once home to the first revolving door in North America.

One of Canada's tiniest museums tackles the world's largest turtle.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

On the waterfront of Sydney, Nova Scotia, a 60-ft. fiddle greets incoming ships.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.