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Grant Wood is a great artist

No national park? Really? Not sure if it’s good or bad, but often people confuse Iowa for Ohio.

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It's where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a small plane crash, in 1959.

For the specified definition of "good things", the Loess Hills, while kind of pretty if firmly mid in spite of its unique geology, are not part of a National Park & therefore do not count.

That's fair

Iowa has loose meat hamburgers that are pretty good.

There's fried pork tenderloin sandwiches, which I assume is some kind of evolution of schnitzel from all the German heritage.

On those dusty ass feed lots that would benefit the cattle, for sure. Let's put that in the AND category with the 11 jillion acres of farmland. Please remember your drive when someone pitches the idea that farmland is precious and scarce. Especially when 30% of what you saw became ethanol.

They have that first Slipknot album. That's pretty cool.

The Des Moines metro is about 750,000 If you lived here, you'd get why DSM itself being <250,000 makes sense. It's a city that never actually had a lot of housing. It's sort of moved in reverse where people lived outside the city and worked in it, but now people are actually moving in.

I assume they have lots of interesting goblins and grotesque humanoids

That suggests there is only one breakfast pizza. (We are large, we contain multitudes.)

The Casey's Taco Pizza is one of my absolute favorite things in the world.

This is very northern Maine too.

You can get that plenty of other places and the core pizza will be much, much better

I'LL SAY IT AGAIN! Screw Casey's. I have pledged allegiance to QuikTrip in the great gas station wars.

They're the best in the Mexican Pizza category.

Is this heaven? No. It’s Iowa.

I mean, as someone from MN, Effigy Mounds National Monument is pretty cool, and worth a visit. Taken a few days trips down to the driftless area - which autumn is the perfect time for a trip there.

Where my brother met his wife...

I believe they have the 2nd most wind power installed in America

Des Moines is cool.

That's cheating, no one wants Carter Lake.

Well, the HAD Kum & Go, but it had to go and change its name. So now they have nothing.

I would just like to sample every regional chili before I die.

We produced Johnny Carson, John Wayne, and Captain Kirk.

Well Des Moines is *almost* at 250k (212k), and there *ought* to be a Driftless Area national park! Also Iowa City is a UNESCO World City of Literature!

i'm not but i have friends

Damn straight it is.

Hey Omaha is actually in the 50 most populated cities in the country.

Also Wyoming, which were it not for Yellowstone National Park, its most well known attribute would be its uncanny squareness.

It has nuclear weapons, oil accessible by fracking, and worse badlands national park.

You're missing the point. We tolerate having no oceans or mountains in return for not having to be around any people.

And yet for decades we've allowed this place to gatekeep who gets nominated for the presidency

Iowa, YA BORING

Super LOL. But also: Des Moines metro area is ~750K people. City limits populations aren’t super relevant.

Every map of the US that relates to beneficial growing conditions, top soil depth, low soil salinity, rain, sunny summer days, near neutral pH, all share a sweet spot, and that spot is Iowa.

State capitol grounds had some neat civil war monuments

www.nps.gov/state/ia/ind... it's got _some_ stuff!

Good luck making drywall without their gypsum though!

It’s the only state where two of its borders are rivers

City limits population strikes again

It's the only state where both the east and west borders are formed by rivers!!