- Road report and review of West Bend, Iowa's massive religious grotto, built by a priest on a Mission from God.www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/IAWESgrot.html
- Grotto of the Redemption West Bend, Iowa Paul Dobberstein came to America from Germany in 1893 to study for the priesthood. Posted to a German-speaking parish in western Iowa, Father Dobberstein dedicated his life to the construction of a massive grotto that uses concrete studded with rocks and geodes to replicate the mountains of his homeland and retell the story of the fall and redemption of ...ww2.lafayette.edu/~niless/Grotto%20of%20the%20Redemption.htm