well, there's a lot of historical stuff about the university of iowa, and i'm sure, if you're that intersted, it can be found at
www.uiowa.edu, but iowa city has the largest bar (the union) in the big 10. we have this goofy thing called the pentacrest (it's kind of like a quad, and has the old capital building, because at one point in time iowa city was the capital of iowa), which has a ton of ginko trees, and in the fall, it smells really, really bad. on a good day the iowa river smells like syrup, and on the last day of classes before winter break there's a tuba concert on the pentacrest. there's also the dead animal zoo and one of the buldings (calvin hall) was on an episode of friends.