Kansas

Find Kansas travel tips, stories, maps, videos and news for unusual tourist attractions and sights.

New Reports

World's Largest Ball of Twine
Cawker City, Kansas
The late Frank Stoeber's giant twine ball continues to grow, added to by visitors with the help of Cawker City residents.
Atomic Cannon
Junction City, Kansas
The Atomic Cannon was built to fire a nuclear shell far enough to vaporize an enemy without vaporizing itself. Park currently closed for renovations, but hilltop cannon can be seen from the parking lot.
Climb the Statehouse Dome
Topeka, Kansas
Climb nearly 300 stairs to the cupola of the Kansas Capitol dome, the second tallest in the U.S. Dizzying, occasionally scary, and memorable.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

The Garden of Eden
Lucas, Kansas
Weird home of folk art and political statements; the late Sam Dinsmoor can be viewed in the back yard.
Grassroots Art Center
Lucas, Kansas
The "visionary" artists of the U.S. have their own space in Lucas, with sculptures made from aluminum can pull-tabs and portraits made from wads of chewing gum.
Famous Gunfighters Wax Museum
Dodge City, Kansas
Wax versions of villains and lawmen from the Wild West along with the Wolfman, Dracula, LBJ and JFK. Unchanged since the mid-1960s.
Strataca: Underground Salt Museum
Hutchinson, Kansas
Museum transports visitors 65 stories below ground to tour vast salt galleries.
Cosmosphere
Hutchinson, Kansas
Second only to The Smithsonian in space artifacts -- see Cosmonaut cast-offs, Nazi ballistics, and American moon diapers.
Dorothy's House and Land of Oz
Liberal, Kansas
Real-life Dorothys give tours. Plot points of the film are colorfully recreated and midget Munchkin mannequins are everywhere.
Johnny Kaw, Bigger Than Bunyan
Manhattan, Kansas
Instead of chopping trees, giant Johnny mows down acres of wheat with his super scythe.
Political Art of M.T. Liggett
Mullinville, Kansas
Sculptures blown by the winds of politics, this Kansas man's viewpoint is writ in metal and bile. But he's not mad.
Subterra Castle: Missile Silo Home
Shawnee County, Kansas
Defunct nuclear missile complexes are 20th century castles, according to the 21st century couple who live in this one.
Truckhenge
Topeka, Kansas
A distorted Stonehenge, but also a playful poke at bureaucrats.
Evel Knievel Museum
Topeka, Kansas
World's largest collection of Evelabilia. See the iconic Skycycle X-2, and a display of Evel's x-rays.
Oz Museum
Wamego, Kansas
Thousands of Wizard of Oz artifacts help cement the everlasting association of over-the-rainbow and Kansas.
Big Brutus
West Mineral, Kansas
Big Brutus, a humongous earth mover, stands where it died and is now a tourist attraction.
Dalton Defenders Museum
Coffeyville, Kansas
Coffeyville remembers the day that the Dalton Gang rode into town to rob two banks, and got shot full of holes by an irate citizenry.
He Killed Lincoln's Killer, Then Lived In A Hole
Concordia, Kansas
Soldier Boston Corbett shot John Wilkes Booth. Later, this hole was his home.
That "Grow a Beard, Abe!" Town
Delphos, Kansas
Abe Lincoln's insistent Grow-a-Beard girl lived here, but Delphos has greater claims to fame...
Boot Hill and Museum
Dodge City, Kansas
Museum at famous Wild West town boneyard shows off its guns, buffalo, Indians, and outlaws. Summer daily gunfights.
La Salsa Muffler Man
Dodge City, Kansas
Commissioned by movie star Dennis Hopper, La Salsa Man was a customized, caricatured Mexican based on a California Muffler Man.
World's Largest Easel
Goodland, Kansas
A giant replica painting on a giant steel easel -- Van Gogh sunflowers for the Sunflower State.
The Big Well
Greensburg, Kansas
World's Largest Hand-Dug Well, the World's Largest Pallasite Meteorite, and a museum about Greensburg's destruction in a 2007 mega-tornado.
Valeda The Talking Transparent Woman
Halstead, Kansas
A life-size see-through plastic model explains her anatomy and the mysteries of life.
World's First Batwing Gas Station
Haysville, Kansas
Built in 1954, restored in 2007. Looks as extreme and futuristic as the day it opened, although you can't buy gas there any more.
Folk Art Headstones of Hoisington
Hoisington, Kansas
Inspired by unmarked graves in his hometown cemetery, folk artist Phil Webb has given the forgotten dead their own colorful sculpture-tombstones.
Comanche, Little Bighorn Survivor
Lawrence, Kansas
Comanche was the last U.S. Army survivor of Custer's Last Stand. He was the most famous horse in America, even after was dead and stuffed.
The Smithalo
Longford, Kansas
60 tons, stands on a hilltop. A personal monument to the American buffalo that was built by Ray Omar Smith, far from the normal tourist routes. Private property; please be respectful.