In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

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

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

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

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

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

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

A number of gruesome unsolved murders have turned this simple home into a morbid tourist trap.

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

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

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