Kansas Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball Kansas places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Abilene: Greyhound Hall of Fame
Abilene: Museum of Independent Telephony
Abilene: Old Abilene Town
Abilene: World's Largest Spur
Alma: Stacked Rock Fences
Andover: Tornado Victims Monument
Arkansas City: Scripture Hill
Atchison: Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
Atchison: Amelia Earhart Earthwork Face
Belleville: Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings
Blue Rapids: Monument to the Ice Age
Bonner Springs: Moon Marble Company
Bonner Springs: Truman's Plow, Agricultural Hall of Fame
Brewster: Minor Family Sod House Bed & Breakfast
Caldwell: Ornate Box Turtle Capital of the World
Caney: Little House on the Prairie
Cawker City: World's Largest Ball of Twine
Chanute: Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum
Coffeyville: Dalton Death Alley
Coffeyville: Dalton Defenders Museum
Coffeyville: The Dead Zone
Colby: Spirit of the Prairie: a Mom-ument
Collyer: Castle Rock
Concordia: Guard Tower From a Nazi POW Camp
Concordia: He Killed Lincoln's Killer, Then Lived In A Hole
Council Grove: Madonna of the Trail
Delphos: That Grow a Beard Abe! Town
Dodge City: Gunfighters Wax Museum
Dodge City: Kansas Teachers' Hall of Fame
Dodge City: Time Zone Sundials
Ellinwood: The Underground
Emporia: Founding City of Veterans Day
Emporia: Giant Coca-Cola Can
Erie: Dinosaur Not So National Park
Fort Riley: Grave of Chief, Last Cavalry Mount in the U.S. Army
Galena: Tow Mater from the Movie Cars
Garden City: World's Largest Hairball
Garden City: World's Largest Outdoor Municipal Concrete Swimming Pool
Garnett: Statue of Liberty and other Tree Trunk Statues
Gas (Iola Area): The World's Largest "Gas Kan" Water Tower
Gaylord: Mini Statue of Liberty
Glen Elder: Tiny Church
Goessel: Liberty Bell Made of Wheat
Goodland: World's Largest Easel
Great Bend: Inventor of the Microchip Monument
Greensburg: World's Largest Hand-Dug Well and Meteorite
Grinnell: Monument Rocks
Haddam: Ladies' Decree: Jail House
Halstead: Valeda The Talking Transparent Woman
Hays: "Monarch of the Plains" Bison Statue
Hays: Famous Fish within a Fish Fossil
Hiawatha: Grier Gardens - Scrap Paradise for Mother
Hiawatha: The Strange Grave of John Milburn Davis
Holcomb: House of the "In Cold Blood" Murders
Howard: Hubbell's Rubble
Hutchinson: Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Hutchinson: Kansas Underground Salt Museum
Hutchinson: Richard Brown: A Legend in His Own Time
Hutchinson: Space-Themed Indoor Pool Area
Independence: Dinosaurs, Nursery Rhyme scenes
Independence: Monkey Island, Home of America's First Space Monkey
Iola: Major General Funston Boyhood Home
Junction City: Atomic Cannon
Junction City: Don Kracht's Castle Island
Junction City: Heritage Underwear Show
Junction City: Kansas Vietnam Memorial
Kansas City: Downtown Burial Mound
Kansas City: Meals Delivered by Model Railroad
Kansas City: Sculpture of Iron
Kansas City: T-Rex Skeleton on the Attack
Kingman: Bison Sculpture on Hill
Kingman: Yard Artist Glenn Stark
Kinsley: Midway USA
Lacrosse: Kansas Barbed Wired Museum
Lawrence: Cenotaph to the Inventor of Basketball
Lawrence: Comanche, Little Bighorn Survivor
Lawrence: Fifty-Foot-Tall Concrete Teepee
Lawrence: Museum of the Odd
Leavenworth: C.W. Parker Carousel Museum
Lebanon: Geographical Center of the 48 States
Lecompton: Secret Skeleton in a Casket
Liberal: Dorothy's House and Land of Oz
Liberal: International Pancake Day Hall of Fame
Liberal: Library Shaped Like an Open Book
Liberal: Mid-America Air Museum
Liberal: Pioneer Mother of Kansas
Lincoln: Giant Dragon and Other Farm Equipment Creatures
Lindsborg: Coronado Heights WPA Castle
Lindsborg: Rock in a Cage
Lindsborg: Wild Dala Horse Herd
Longford: The Smithalo
Lucas: Bowl Plaza: World's Most Artsy Public Toilets

Lucas: Grassroots Art Center - Pull-Tab and Chewing Gum
Lucas: Mini Mount Rushmore, House of Barbies
Lucas: The Garden of Eden
Lucas: World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest...
Manhattan: 30-Ft-Tall Johnny Kaw, Kansas Answer to Bunyan
Manhattan: Manhattan's Hollywood-style Letters
Maple Hill: Backward Tombstone
Marion: Carving of Pepsi Bottle
Marion: Rhinoceroses of Marion, Kansas
Marquette: Kansas Motorcycle Museum
Marquette: Mushroom Rock State Park
Marysville: Black Squirrel Town
McLouth: Rock in the Road
McPherson: Happy Chef - Chimney Sweep
McPherson: Skin of Leo, MGM Lion
Meade: Dalton Gang Hideout - Secret Escape Tunnel
Medicine Lodge: Carry Nation's Whackin' Hatchet
Minneapolis: Rock City
Moline: Kansas's Oldest Swinging Bridge
Morrowville: Replica of World's First Bulldozer
Mullinville: M.T. Liggett's Political Sculptures
Natoma: Wizard of Oz Tributes
Newton: World's Tallest Mennonite
Norton: Gallery of Presidential Also-Rans
Oakley: Buffalo Bill Kill Statue
Oakley: Fick Fossil and History Museum
Oakley: Prairie Dog Town
Osawatomie: John Brown Cabin in a Building
Overbrook: Backyard Pirate Ship - DV Hangman
Piqua: Buster Keaton Museum
Pratt: Home of Beautiful Women, Hot and Cold Water Towers
Riverton: Rainbow Curve Bridge
Rose Hill: Jurassic Art - Welded Dinosaurs
Rush Center: Home of the Largest St. Patrick's Parade
Russell Springs: Cow Chip Capital of Kansas
Salina: Auto Parts Sculpture
Salina: Landlocked Lighthouse
Scott City: El Quartelejo Pueblo Ruins
Sedan: Emmett Kelly Museum
Sedan: Yellow Brick Road and Munchkin Mall
Seneca: Second Largest Hand Dug Well in Kansas
Shawnee County: Subterra Castle: Missile Silo Home
Shawnee: All-Electric Model House Tour
Shawnee: Bronze Pioneer Mom and Baby
South Hutchinson: 1,260 Lb. Salt Block and Discovery Well
Stull: Gates of Hell
Topeka: Chief Drive-In Theatre Sign
Topeka: Child Grave Mystery Dress-Up
Topeka: Downed Cold War Aircraft Memorial
Topeka: Fire Hydrant Garden
Topeka: Goony Golf Green Dinosaur
Topeka: Humerus Osteopathic Statue
Topeka: Locally-Famous Big Wren Statue
Topeka: Matrot Castle and Dinosaur Garden
Topeka: No Spit Brick and Lincoln Blood Splatter
Topeka: Pioneer Women of Kansas
Topeka: Truckhenge
Troy: Peter Toth Indian Monument
Victoria: Grave of the Man who Gave us Angus Beef
Victoria: Massacred Railroad Workers Cemetery
WaKeeney: F-14 Fighter Jet
Wakeeney: Christmas City of the High Plains
Wallace: Barbed Wire Buffalo
Wamego: Old Dutch Windmill
Wamego: Oz Museum
Weskan: Mt. Sunflower: Highest Point in Kansas
West Mineral: Big Brutus
White Cloud: 40th Parallel Marker
White Cloud: Monument to the Pig that Inspired the Piggy Bank
White Cloud: See Four States - Unbelievable View
Wichita: Big Indian Surrounded by Ring of Fire
Wichita: Boy and the Boot Statue
Wichita: Bright Spot for Health aka The Pyradomes
Wichita: Bumper Guard Bulls
Wichita: Carry Nation Memorial Drinking Fountain
Wichita: Coleman Lantern Museum
Wichita: Early Civil Rights Sit-In Lunch Counter
Wichita: Girl and Dog Say It With Flowers - Forever
Wichita: Haunted Kansas Aviation Museum
Wichita: Horse made of Car Bumpers
Wichita: Large Rooftop Rooster Statue
Wichita: Muffler Man
Wichita: Scalp of Custer's Nephew
Wichita: Stonehenge Jr.
Wichita: The Tree Trunk People
Wichita: The Troll
Wichita: World's First Pizza Hut
Wilburton: Tractor made of hay bales
Wilson: World's Largest Czechoslovakian Egg
somewhere in Kansas: Transdimensional Divining Dude

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Baxter Springs: Big Rabbit
Burlingame: Easter Island Heads - Gone
Dodge City: Big Matt - Long Gone Muffler Man
East Wichita: Giant Black Cat - Vague Recollections
Hillsboro: Robert Wadlow Shoe - Gone
Horton: Reflector House - Gone
Kansas City: Muffler Man - Gone
Lawrence: The Quarter House - Gone

Louisville: Stump of the Former U.S. Champion Elm Tree
Mulvane: The God Guy - Biblical Folk Art
Park City: Wild West World - Closed
Salina: Bones of Famous Elephant
Salina: Prehistoric Indian Burial Pits - Gone
Topeka: Giant Meat Cleaver - Gone

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