The Black Angel stands in Oakland Cemetery, a dark bronze figure that has become Iowa City's favourite piece of cemetery folklore. The monument marks the Feldevert family plot, but its oxidised colour and severe posture have inspired far more ghost stories than genealogical interest.
Go in daylight and treat it as a local landmark rather than a thrill ride. The appeal is the mix of funerary sculpture, campus-town legend, and quiet cemetery landscape a short distance from the centre.