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Over 90 automobiles dating from since 1899, with a replica of an early Skelly gas station.
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Home to the Hawkeyes basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, and wrestling teams.
A large riverside park with lots of amenities for families, including picnic shelters, ponds, playgrounds, athletic facilities, a boat ramp, a small amusement park for little kids that's open in the summer months, and an outdoor Shakespeare theater.
Home to the Hawkeyes football team. If you happen to make it to a Hawkeyes home game, you can take part in perhaps the most heartwarming tradition in American sports. In early 2017, the university opened a new children's hospital across the street, with the top floors having an unobstructed view of the entire playing field. The hospital created a lounge area that's reserved for patients and their families on game days. Since the hospital opened, every home game has featured the "Kinnick Wave" at the end of the first quarter, which involves the entire crowd turning toward it (unless they're already facing that direction) and waving to the children across the street.
Displays about the history of the Hawkeye teams, including Nile Kinnick's Heisman Trophy.
One of the oldest museums west of the Mississippi, this place has many well-crafted displays of taxidermy figures, prehistoric artifacts, and exhibits on Iowa's geology and ecology, as well as the state's Native American cultures. Among the highlights of the museum are a reconstruction of a giant Ice Age sloth, a complete whale skeleton, and an extensive Bird Hall with over a thousand birds on display, including a marvelous cyclorama (a 360-degree diorama) depicting bird life on a remote Pacific island. Gift shop.
Tour Iowa's first capitol building in the center of the Pentacrest. Inside you'll find three floors of exhibits linked by a beautiful spiral staircase within the building's rotunda. The original Senate and Legislature Chambers are open as well as a couple of galleries which host changing exhibitions. Gift shop.