Kansas

New Reports

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Crime Doctor and Death Car Memorabilia

  Abilene, Kansas

  See the mementos (not the Death Car) of The Crime Doctor, who pioneered the earliest days of Bonnie and Clyde Death Car exploitation.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

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  World's Largest Ball of Twine

  Cawker City, Kansas

  The late Frank Stoeber's giant twine ball continues to grow under the supervision of Cawker City residents.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Famous Gunfighters Wax Museum

  Dodge City, Kansas

  Wax versions of notorious villains and lawmen from the wild west -- Jesse James, Wyatt Earp -- along with the Wolfman, Dracula, LBJ and JFK. Unchanged since the mid-1960s.

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  Strataca: Underground Salt Museum

  Hutchinson, Kansas

  Museum transports visitors 65 stories below ground to tour vast salt galleries.

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  Cosmosphere

  Hutchinson, Kansas

  Second only to The Smithsonian in space artifacts -- see Cosmonaut cast-offs, Nazi ballistics, and American moon diapers.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Truckhenge

  Topeka, Kansas

  A distorted Stonehenge, but also a playful poke at bureaucrats.

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  Oz Museum

  Wamego, Kansas

  Thousands of Wizard of Oz artifacts help cement the everlasting association of over-the-rainbow and Kansas.

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  Big Brutus

  West Mineral, Kansas

  Big Brutus, a humongous earth mover, stands where it died and is now a tourist attraction.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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...

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  La Salsa Muffler Man

  Dodge City, Kansas

  Commissioned by movie star Dennis Hopper, La Salsa Man is a customized caricatured Mexican based on a California Muffler Man. Donated to Dodge City 2010, erected 2016, removed 2017, next locale TBD.

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  World's Largest Easel

  Goodland, Kansas

  A giant replica painting on a giant steel easel -- Van Gogh sunflowers for the Sunflower State.

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  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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  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.

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  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.

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  Bowl Plaza: America's Most Artistic Giant Toilet

  Lucas, Kansas

  The building is shaped like a toilet tank, the benches in front of the building are curved like a toilet seat, and the sidewalk in front undulates like an unspooled toilet roll.

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  Johnny Kaw, Bigger Than Bunyan

  Manhattan, Kansas

  Instead of chopping trees, giant Johnny mows down acres of wheat with his super scythe.

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  Rock City

  Minneapolis, Kansas

  A strange field of strange boulders -- 200 sandstone concretions -- and a popular stop to wear out children.

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  Home of Beautiful Women, Hot and Cold Water Towers

  Pratt, Kansas

  Take a photo of Pratt's famous "Hot" and "Cold" water towers, then see a historical exhibit on Pratt's heritage of beauty queens.