Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Kansas

While in Kansas, you might enjoy a visit to:

This building, the former Wichita Airport Terminal, is known for mysteriously slamming doors and reports of "public announcements from another era." If you don't see any ghosts, there are still old planes to look at.
~9 miles from Andover.

Unveiled in 1930, a 17-foot-tall statue of an Oklahoma mom strides across the prairie, holding the hand of her son. Museum showcases pioneer artifacts. Note: this is not a statue and museum of "The Pioneer Woman" on the Cooking Channel, although some visitors arrive thinking that it is.
~68 miles from Andover.

Visitors are whisked 65 stories below ground to tour vast salt galleries on electric trams.
~47 miles from Andover.

Second only to The Smithsonian in space artifacts, and it's in a suburban neighborhood in Kansas. See cosmonaut cast-offs, Nazi ballistics, and the capsule from Apollo 13.
~50 miles from Andover.

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