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This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

The oldest university museum west of the Mississippi retains its 19th century feel.

This simple home was the beginning of a long journey for the iconic Western film star.

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

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

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

The World's Largest Bull.

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

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

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A giant fiberglass catfish welcomes visitors to this Wisconsin river town and heralds its annual Catfish Days festival.

An unusual statue in Wisconsin of the first daily comic strip character.

Life-size statues of characters from 'The Wizard of Oz' stand at the one of the early screening sites for the 1939 movie.

An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.