Walcott, Iowa
Iowa 80 Truck Stop
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
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Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Gladbrook, Iowa
A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Dubuque, Iowa
For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Excelsior Springs, Missouri
This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Dyersville, Iowa
A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
West Bend, Iowa
A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.
Britt, Iowa
An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.
Sac City, Iowa
Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.