Things to do across Iowa

Pedal-powered railbike rides through the Des Moines River valley beside the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad.

A Mississippi River city in southeast Iowa known for bluff top parks, historic Snake Alley and river views.

Iowa county famous for its historic covered bridges, made famous by The Bridges of Madison County.

The restored 1907 birth home and museum of actor John Wayne, with film memorabilia and archives.

Ride seven roller coasters, including the 101-degree drop of the Monster, and cool off at the Adventure Bay water park.

Wander seven historic German villages with a working woolen mill, bakeries, craft shops, restaurants and small museums.

See the little white house with the Gothic window from Grant Wood's painting and pose in costume in front of it.

Hike trails past more than 200 prehistoric mounds, including earthworks built in the shapes of bears and birds.

Ride a tiny funicular cable car 189 feet up the bluff for views of downtown Dubuque, the Mississippi and three states.

Walk the baseball diamond cut into an Iowa cornfield for the 1989 film and tour the original farmhouse.

Tour Herbert Hoover's two-room birthplace cottage, a blacksmith shop, a Quaker meetinghouse and the Hoover gravesite.

Browse a huge trucker's store, eat at several restaurants and see antique rigs at the free trucking museum off I-80.

Tour a five-domed statehouse topped in 23-karat gold, with 29 kinds of marble and a law library ringed by four stories of balconies.

Ride a tractor cart between working farms of 1700, 1850 and 1900 and walk the shops of an 1876 prairie town.

Hike six miles of trails linking about 13 caves, a 50-foot natural bridge and a 17-ton balanced rock.

See galleries on Czech and Slovak history and immigrant life, a large collection of folk dress, and a Prague-style astronomical clock.

Watch sturgeon, river otters and rays in more than a dozen aquariums, then see a historic Mississippi River steamboat dredge.

Stroll 4.4 downtown acres of large outdoor sculpture, including Jaume Plensa's 27-foot figure made of letters.

Walk through the 1883 covered bridge over the Middle River made famous by The Bridges of Madison County.