GLADBROOK, Iowa (AP) -- We could start anywhere, but the USS Iowa, just inside the front door of the Gladbrook museum, is as good as any. It took Pat Acton 800 hours and 137,000 wooden matchsticks -- ...

Some of Pat Acton’s creations, housed in the museum, include the U.S. Capitol and Notre Dame Cathedral. It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing ...

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Farmhand Stanley Offord's artistic streak came from out of the blue 50 years ago: no guidance, no fancy art supplies, no art school. "I was just sitting there one day," he said.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The first thing Paul Marti wants you to understand about his odd and wondrous matchstick creations — his delicate cathedrals, soaring castles, luxe mansions ...

Not many people play with matches and get paid for it. Pat Acton does. He spends hours at a workbench nestled in his Gladbrook basement, carefully gluing together hundreds of matchsticks, 2 1/8-inch ...

A man has spent a year making a replica of Notre Dame Cathedral using 12,000 matchsticks. David Harding from Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire said he put in about 1,000 hours of work, with each ...

Gladbrook, Iowa has just under a thousand residents and no stop light. Besides the thin, white windmills, there is little to mark the divide between land and sky. If you stand in the middle of the ...

It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And ...