Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Kansas

While in Kansas, you might enjoy a visit to:

Pizza Hut was invented by two Wichita State University students, and their first Hut has been moved onto the campus as a hut-size museum. The one-story brick structure looks nothing like its familiar progeny.
~4 miles from Wichita.

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.
~46 miles from Wichita.

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 Wichita.

See the battered "Dorothy I" from the movie and other cinematic debris. Small, but a favorite stop for storm chasers and fans of the 1996 film.
~67 miles from Wichita.

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