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Pizza Hut Museum
Wichita, Kansas
Pizza Hut was invented by two Wichita State University students. The first Hut was moved onto the campus as a hut-size museum.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
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.
Cosmosphere
Hutchinson, Kansas
Second only to The Smithsonian in space artifacts -- see the USSR's Cosmonaut cast-offs, Nazi ballistics, and the capsule from Apollo 13.
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.
The Strange Grave of John Milburn Davis
Hiawatha, Kansas
Ten life-size, Italian marble statues -- and one of granite -- depict John and Sarah Davis at various stages of their lives.
Strataca: Underground Salt Museum
Hutchinson, Kansas
Museum transports visitors 65 stories below ground to tour vast salt galleries.
Geographical Center of the 48 States
Lebanon, Kansas
The ultimate fallback position in case we're attacked by Canada, Mexico, and the Fish People from the Atlantic and Pacific. Featured as America's divide-healing center in Bruce Springsteen's 2021 Super Bowl commercial.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dalton Death Sidewalk
Coffeyville, Kansas
Unique sidewalk photo-op of four dead Dalton Gang members. Lie next to them and pretend to be a gunned-down Wild West bank robber.
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.
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Kansas attractions.
- Abilene: World's Largest Belt Buckle
- Belleville: Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings [tips]
- Bonner Springs: Agricultural Hall of Fame: Truman's Plow [tips]
- Cawker City: World's Largest Ball of Twine
- Codell: Cyclone Day Memorial [tips]
- Coffeyville: Dalton Defenders Museum
- Coffeyville: Dalton Death Alley
- Coffeyville: Field of Weird College Wood Art [tips]
- Coffeyville: Dalton Death Sidewalk
- Collyer: Castle Rock [tips]
- Concordia: WWII German POW Camp
- Concordia: He Killed Lincoln's Killer, Then Lived In A Hole
- Concordia: Orphan Train Museum
- Delphos: That "Grow a Beard, Abe!" Town
- Dodge City: Famous Gunfighters Wax Museum
- Dodge City: Boot Hill and Museum
- Dodge City: La Salsa Muffler Man
- Ellinwood: The Underground [tips]
- Erie: Erie Dinosaur Park [tips]
- Galena: Bonnie And Clyde's Shotgun [tips]
- Garden City: World's Largest Hairball [tips]
- Goessel: Liberty Bell Made of Wheat
- Goodland: World's Largest Easel
- Great Bend: Inventor of the Microchip Monument
- Greensburg: The Big Well
- Grinnell: Monument Rocks [tips]
- Halstead: Valeda The Talking Transparent Woman
- Haysville: World's First Batwing Gas Station
- Hiawatha: The Strange Grave of John Milburn Davis
- Hoisington: Folk Art Headstones of Hoisington
- Howard: Hubble's Rubble [tips]
- Hutchinson: Strataca: Underground Salt Museum
- Hutchinson: Cosmosphere
- Hutchinson: Big Greaser Muffler Man, Half A Big John [tips]
- Junction City: Atomic Cannon
- Kinsley: Midway USA [tips]
- Lacrosse: Kansas Barbed Wired Museum [tips]
- Lawrence: Comanche, Little Bighorn Survivor
- Lawrence: 50-Foot-Tall Concrete Teepee
- Lawrence: Museum of the Odd
- Lebanon: Geographical Center of the 48 States
- Liberal: Dorothy's House and Land of Oz
- Lindsborg: Mini-Castle of Coronado Heights [tips]
- Longford: The Smithalo
- Lucas: The Garden of Eden
- Lucas: World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest...
- Lucas: Grassroots Art Center
- Lucas: Bowl Plaza: America's Most Artistic Giant Toilet
- Manhattan: Johnny Kaw, Bigger Than Bunyan
- McPherson: Happy Chef - Chimney Sweep [tips]
- Meade: Dalton Gang Hideout: Secret Escape Tunnel
- Minneapolis: Rock City
- Mullinville: Political Art of M.T. Liggett
- Norton: Station 15: Wild West Dummies
- Oakley: Buffalo Bill Kill Statue
- Pratt: Home of Beautiful Women, Hot and Cold Water Towers
- Rose Hill: Jurassic Art: Welded Dinosaurs [tips]
- Topeka: Locally-Famous Big Wren Statue [tips]
- Topeka: Truckhenge
- Topeka: Evel Knievel Museum
- Topeka: Climb the Statehouse Dome
- Wamego: Oz Museum
- Wamego: Old Dutch Windmill [tips]
- West Mineral: Big Brutus
- Wichita: Muffler Man [tips]
- Wichita: Pizza Hut Museum
- Wichita: Museum of World Treasures
- Wichita: Sit-In Lunch Counter in Bronze [tips]
- Wichita: WuShock: Fighting-Mad Wheat
- Wichita: Keeper of the Plains: Ring of Fire [tips]
- Wichita: Steampunk Yard Artist [tips]
- Wilson: World's Largest Hand-Painted Czech Egg [tips]