Algona [NW]

• Drug Store Exhibition, Attraction: Drug store cabinets, equipment, medicine bottles, soda fountain

Communal colony formed in the 1800s, disbanded in the 1930s, but still active & known for quality merchandise

Amana

• Amana Colonies RV Park, Attraction: Close to all the Amanas
• Amana Furniture Shop, Attraction: See how Amana furniture is made, clocks, sales room, 0$
• Amana Heritage Museum, Attraction: History of the Amana Colonies, exhibits in 3 buildings tell Amana's story,  tools, industrial exhibits, toys, quilts, $
• Amana Woolen Mills, Attraction: Iowa's only operating woolen mill, 0$
• Industrial Machine Shop Museum, Attraction: Learn how machinists & blacksmiths kept the Woolen Mill & other industries going, $

High Amana

• High Amana General Store, Attraction: Country store that looks just as it did in 1932

Homestead

• Amana Community Church Museum, Attraction: Tour the Community of True Inspiration Church which is an active church, learn about the beliefs of members, $
• Homestead Store Museum, Attraction: The store's role in communal Amana, communal-era crafts, learn about other communal societies in America, $

Middle Amana

• Communal Kitchen & Cooper Shop Museum, Attraction: Utensils, pots, pans, kitchen area as it appeared in 1932, cooper shop shows how barrels are made, $
• Hans Open Hearth Bakery, Attraction: Bread baked the old way, go early to get fresh-baked goods, 0$

South Amana

• Communal Agriculture Museum, Attraction: Agricultural implements used on Amana communal farms, $
• Mini-Americana Barn Museum, Attraction: Extensive collection of miniature buildings typical of 1800s Iowa villages & farmsteads, $

• Farm House Museum, Attraction: Restored 1860s farm house, 0$
• Reiman Gardens, Attraction: 14-acre gardens showing diversity of plants, $

• Abbie Gardner State Historic Site, Attraction: Restored 1856 log cabin with typical pioneer furniture, 0$

• Albert the Bull statue, Attraction: 45-ton statue of Hereford bull as a tribute to local cattle feeders
• Albert the Bull Campground, Attraction: Camping

• Antique Aircraft Association & Airpower Museum (3 mi NE of Blakesburg on CR H41), Attraction: Antique & classic aircraft, 0$

• Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad, Attraction: 15-mi round-trip through scenic Des Moines River Valley in vintage railroad cars pulled by a Chinese-manufactured locomotive, $$

Burlington [SE]

• Geode State Park, Attraction: Camping, hiking, geodes (dull spherical rocks with crystalline centers)

• Snake Alley, Attraction: Labeled by Ripley's as the world's crookedest street, 7 curves in 275 ft to get from Heritage Hill to the business district

• Antique Acres, Attraction: Working museum featuring agricultural equipment from the early 1900s, $

• Floyd County Historical Society, Attraction: 1900s drugstore with prescription counter, shelves of quaint medicines & old-fashioned remedies, soda fountain featuring jars of penny candy, 1913 "Old Reliable" tractor, $

• Sanford Museum & Planetarium, Attraction: Archeological, geological, historical, zoological, & art exhibits relating to NW Iowa & the Great Plains, 0$

• Heartland Museum, Attraction: Iowa's agricultural & rural life through farm machinery, toys, & displays showing streetscapes from Victorian, 1930s, 1950s eras, $

• Trainland U.S.A., Attraction: Depicts development of the transcontinental railroad with operating Lionel toy trains, $

• 1876 Coralville Schoolhouse Museum, Attraction: Experience what it was like to attend a 2-room rural school, 0$
• Johnson County Historical Society (Exit 242 off I-80), Attraction: 1876 school with period furnishings & scholastic materials, 0$

• Prairie Trails Museum of Wayne County, Attraction: More than 40,000 artifacts from early Iowa including vehicles, farm equipment, country store, $
• Wayne County Historical Museum, Attraction: More than 80,000 items from Wayne County, re-creation of Main Street in a typical late 1800s village with general store, doctor's office, barbershop, jail, courtroom, dentist's office, beauty salon, & post office, $

• Historic General Dodge home, Attraction: Restored 1869 residence of transcontinental railroad builder & Civil War General, $
• Historic Pottawattamie County Jail (Exit 3 off I-80), Attraction: 1885 jail also called the "Squirrel Cage" built to control prisoners with minimum supervision, $
• Lewis & Clark Monument
• Railswest Railroad Museum & HO Model Railroad (Exit 3 off I-80), Attraction: Union Pacific #814 & Burlington #915 steam engines, rail cars, extensive HO operating model railroad, $
• Street of Generals (Third St), Attraction: Victorian homes
• Union Pacific Railroad Museum, Attraction: How the transcontinental railroad was built, learn about modern railroads, 0$

• The Humboldt County Historical Museum, Attraction: 13-room 1879 farm house, barn, farm equipment, American Indian artifacts, re-created village businesses, $

• Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Attraction: One of the largest immigrant museums in the U.S., includes a hotel, 3-story ship galley, stone mill, log school, pioneer homes, $

• Iowa Historical Building, Attraction: Exhibits on geology, civic & military history, American Indian culture, farm machinery, aircraft, Conestoga wagon, 0$
• Iowa Machine Shed Restaurant
• Living History Farms, Attraction: Historic buildings celebrating 300 years of farming
• Scotch Ridge Church

Dubuque [NE]

• Crystal Lake Cave (3 mi S on US52), Attraction: Intricate formations & underground lake, $

• Dubuque Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, Attraction: Shade gardens, prairie flowers & grasses, water gardens, 0$

• Fenelon Place Elevator, Attraction: 1882 incline railway between streets, $

• National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium , Attraction: 300 years of Mississippi River history, 1934 William M Black steamboat, $

• Dyer-Botsford Historical House, Attraction: Nearly 1,000 dolls
• "Field of Dreams" Movie Site (Exit 294 US20), Attraction: Site where 1988 movie was filmed, test your hitting on the baseball diamond, 0$
• National Farm Toy Museum, Attraction: Over 30,000 to-scale toy trucks, tractors, etc., $

• Eagle Point Park

• Grant Wood Cottage, Attraction: Cottage Grant Wood used to paint his famous "American Gothic" painting

Danish town, largest Danish community in the U.S.

• Danish Immigrant Museum, Attraction: Tells the story of Danish settlers , $

• Fort Atkinson State Preserve, Attraction: 1840s Federal military post, 0$
• Winnebago Industries Visitor Center, Attraction: 90-minute tour showing the manufacture & assembly of motor homes, historical recreational vehicles, 0$

• Fort Museum & Frontier Village, Attraction: Replica of an 1862 militia fort, two original cabins, $

• Old Fort Madison, Attraction: Reconstruction of frontier outpost built in 1808, first military post on the upper Mississippi, $

• Froelich General Store & Tractor Museum, Attraction: 1866 school, 1890 blacksmith shop, 1891 general store, tractor memorabilia, 1892 working replica of the first tractor made by John Froelich (forerunner of John Deere tractor), 0$

• Matchbook Marvels, Attraction: Detailed models made from matchsticks, $

One of Midwest's largest Amish communities

• Delaware County Historical Museum Complex, Attraction: Nine buildings dating from 1856, train depot & railroad artifacts, farm machinery, church, one-room school, $

• Wapsipihicon Mill Museum, Attraction: 1870s mill is the largest grist mill in Iowa, original artifacts, 0$

• University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Attraction: Animal, plant, fossil, & anthropological exhibits, Meskwaki Indian lodge, 0$

• Jefferson Telephone Company Museum, Attraction: Features telephones from the earliest instruments to modern, switchboards, other artifacts of the telephone industry, 0$
• Mahanay Memorial Carillon, Attraction: Observation deck at 162-ft level, chimes every 15 minutes, $

• Kalona Historical Village, Attraction: 1800s buildings including Rock Island Railroad Depot & railroad memorabilia, Iowa Mennonite Museum, one-room schoolhouse, farm machinery, 1867 church, 1900 store, $

• George M. Verity Riverboat Museum, Attraction: Steam-powered stern-wheeler towboat, $
• Keokuk Lock & Dam, Attraction: Mile-long dam & lock that facilitates Mississippi River traffic, 0$

• Lacey-Keosauqua State Park (2 mi SW on SR1), Attraction: At location where pioneers forded the Mississippi River, camping, 0$

• Buffalo Bill Cody Museum, Attraction: Displays on native son William Cody, steamboats, $

• Plymouth County Historical Museum, Attraction: Local history, antique & exotic musical instruments
• Wells Dairy (Blue Bunny products), Attraction:  Ice cream capital of the world, tour simulated factory, product samples, $

• Walnut Grove Pioneer Village, Attraction: 18 restored, furnished buildings including a school, courthouse, church, general store, & railroad station, 0$

• John L. Lewis Mining & Labor Museum

• Shady Oaks RV Campground, Attraction: Camping, Big Treehouse

• Loets Hills, Attraction: Unique land form

• Jackson County Historical Society Museum, Attraction: 22,000 sq ft of exhibits exploring history of Jackson County, agricultural equipment, log cabin, 0$
• Maquoketa Caves State Park (7 mi NW of Maquoketa on SR428), Attraction: 13 limestone caves, natural bridge, balancing rock, camping, 0$

Town that gave Meredith Wilson the inspiration for "The Music Man"

• Charles H. MacNider Museum, Attraction: American art dating from the 1800s, 0$
• Stockman House, Attraction: 1908 Frank Lloyd Wright house, $
• Kinney Pioneer Museum (0.5 mi E on I-35), Attraction: Fossils, American Indian artifacts, pioneer utensils & furniture, covered wagon, log cabin, $

• Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead, Attraction: Boyhood home of Buffalo Bill Cody, $

• Effigy Mounds National Monument, Attraction: 191 mounds of several types and from several periods, some mounds in shapes of bears, birds, etc.
• Pikes Peak State Park (3 mi SE on SR340), Attraction: 500-ft bluff overlooking the Mississippi & Wisconsin rivers, Bridal Veil falls, 0$
• Spook Cave (7 mi W on US18), Attraction: Underground river cavern, $

• DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge (7 mi W of DeSoto on US 30), Attraction: Major migratory stopover for ducks, geese, eagles, $
• Harrison County Historical Village & Welcome Center (3.5 mi N on US30), Attraction: 1853 log cabin, 1868 schoolhouse, American Indian relics, $

• Midwest Old Threshers Heritage Museum, Attraction: Early farm machinery & equipment, large collection of Corliss stationary steam engines, steam traction engines, & steam-powered threshing machines, $

• Bradford Pioneer Village (2 mi E of Nashua on SR346), Attraction: Restored historical structures including country store, doctor's office, smithy, train depot, school, $
• Little Brown Church in the Vale (2 mi NE of Nashua on SR346), Attraction: 1860 church immortalized in the song "The Church in the Wildwood," 0$

• Jasper County Museum (Exit 164 off I-80), Attraction: Maytag washing machine exhibit, tools, farm equipment, historic buildings, $
• Maytag Dairy Farm (Exit 164 off I-80), Attraction: Produces many cheeses but known for Maytag Blue Cheese, 0$

• Nishna Heritage Museum, Attraction: Replicas of late 1800s rooms, pioneer artifacts, covered wagon, American Indian implements, fossils, 0$

• Replica of Lewis & Clark boats

City with Dutch architecture & culture

• Nelson Homestead Pioneer Farm Museum (Exit 242 off I-80), Attraction: 310-acre farm depicting family life in the 1850s, 18 buildings including a house, cabin, post office, blacksmiths shop, stagecoach, Quaker meeting house, $

• Airpower Museum of Ottumwa
• John Deere Ottumwa Works, Attraction: Tours of hay & forage equipment factory, 0$
• Wapello County Historical Museum, Attraction: Wapello County history displayed in 16 rooms, more than 10,000 items including American Indian artifacts, quilts, agricultural exhibit, working 1925 LaFrance fire truck, $

Dutch architecture, old-world charm , tulip gardens in spring, animated musical Klokkenspel clock

• Pella Historical Village, Attraction: Historical artifacts, log cabin, replica of Pella's first church, gristmill, smithy, 126-ft working Vermeer windmill, & wooden-shoe workshop, $

• Sunken Gardens, Attraction: Pond surrounded by tulips in season, Dutch windmill

• Dallas County Forest Park Museum & Arboretum (0.2 mi S of Perry on SW141), Attraction: mining tools, early transportation, farm equipment, 1860s log cabin, 0$

See Bettendorf IA, Davenport IA, Moline IL, Rock Island IL

• Rock Island Arsenal (on Rock Island), Attraction: Largest manufacturing arsenal in U.S., Fort Armstrong Blockhouse, 0$

• Rock Island Arsenal Museum (on Rock Island, access from Moline, IL), Attraction: Extensive collection of military & civilian firearms, 0$

• Cedar Rock (2 mi NW or CR35), Attraction: Frank Lloyd Wright "Usonian" house built in 1948, 0$

• Sergeant Floyd Monument (Exit 149 off I-29), Attraction: 100-ft obelisk that marks the burial place of Sgt Charles Floyd, the only member of Lewis & Clark Exhibition that died during the 3-yr journey, 0$
• Sergeant Floyd Riverboat Welcome Center & Museum (Exit 149 off I-29), Attraction: Displays relating the history of the Missouri River transportation including the Lewis & Clark Expedition, 0$
• Sioux City Public Museum, Attraction: Sioux City & American Indian history, 0$

• Bily Clock Museum, Attraction: Collection of 40 hand-carved clocks including the intricate 10-ft tall American Pioneer History Clock, $

• Country Relics Village (1.5 mi N on SR17), Attraction: Two-thirds size replica of an early 1900s village, $

• Watson's Grocery Store Museum, Attraction: Restored 1886 general store, 0$

• Wilder Memorial Museum, Attraction: More than 800 heirloom dolls & other antiques dating from 1700, $

Toledo [NE]

• Tama County Historical Museum, Attraction: Artifacts from local Mequakie Indians & implements used by early settlers, $

• Living History Farms (Exit 125 off I-35), Attraction: 600-acre open-air agricultural museum telling the story of farming in the Midwest, 1700s Ioway Indian village, 1850 working pioneer farm, horse-powered 1900 farm, 1875 frontier town with general store, schoolhouse, doctor's office, bank, law office, drugstore, and more, $

• Toolesboro Mounds National History Landmark (8 mi E of Wapello on SR99), Attraction: Hopeweillian Indian burial mounds dating from 500 BC to AD 400, 0$

• Grout Museum of History & Science, Attraction: Natural & local history, pioneer life, & the industrial area, $

• John Deere Tractor Assembly, Attraction: Factory tours of the assembly, foundry, & engine works, 0$

• Grotto of the Redemption, Attraction: Eight grottos covering a city block built from rocks & gemstones from all over the world, $

• Hemken Collection, Attraction: Over 60 vintage automobiles, over half being convertibles, $

• John Wayne Birthplace, Attraction: House where John Wayne was born restored to 1907 appearance, $
• Madison County Museum & Historical Complex, Attraction: American Indian artifacts, pioneer items, $

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