Amana Colonies, Iowa

The Amana Colonies are a unique collection of villages not far from Iowa City, settled by a German pastoral religious movement in the mid 1800s and now painstakingly preserved as a tourist destination.  Here at center we see Amana proper, their focal point, and above it beyond the pond is Middle Amana, where the eponymous appliances are still manufactured in a factory carefully hidden behind a screen of trees.