Kansas Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Kansas. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Dodge City | Wichita
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Abilene: Greyhound Hall of Fame - Abilene: Ike's Boyhood Home, Museum, Statue, and Grave
- Abilene: Museum of Independent Telephony
- Abilene: Old Abilene Town
- Abilene: World's Largest Belt Buckle
- Abilene: World's Largest Spur
- Alma: Stacked Rock Fences
- Andover: Tornado Victims Monument
- Arkansas City: Scripture Hill
- Atchison: Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum
- Atchison: Amelia Earhart Earthwork Face
- Atchison: Statue of Deafy Boular, the Legless Bricklayer
- Athol: Home on the Range
- Baxter Springs: 1930 Gas Station
- Beaumont: Barry Seal's Airplane
- Belleville: Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings
- Belleville: High Banks Hall of Fame and National Midget Auto Racing Museum
- Blue Rapids: Dorothy Gale's Tornado Horror: Inspired Oz
- Blue Rapids: Monument to the Ice Age
- Bonner Springs: Moon Marble Company
- Bonner Springs: National Poultry Museum
- Bucyrus: The Sexting Statue
- Bunker Hill: 1930s Mobil Gas Station
- Caldwell: Ornate Box Turtle Capital of the World
- Cawker City: Eyegore's Curiosities and Monster Museum
- Cawker City: Mini-Motel in 1930s Gas Station
- Cawker City: World's Largest Ball of Twine
- Chanute: Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum
- Codell: Cyclone Day Memorial
- Coffeyville: Dalton Death Alley
- Coffeyville: Dalton Death Sidewalk
- Coffeyville: Dalton Defenders Museum
- Coffeyville: Dalton Gang Grave
- Coffeyville: Field of Weird College Wood Art
- Coffeyville: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Coffeyville: The Dead Zone
- Coffeyville: Walter Johnson Monument
- Colby: Spirit of the Prairie: a Mom-ument
- Colby: Wheat Jesus Billboard
- Collyer: Castle Rock
- Concordia: He Killed Lincoln's Killer, Then Lived In A Hole
- Concordia: Longest Sculpted Brick Mural
- Concordia: Orphan Train Museum
- Concordia: WWII German POW Camp
- Council Grove: Madonna of the Trail
- Council Grove: Stump of the Council Oak
- Council Grove: Tin Man in Need of Oiling
- Delphos: That "Grow a Beard, Abe!" Town
- Derby: Field Station: Dinosaurs
- Dexter: Lighthouse Library
- Dodge City: 9/11 Memorial: Twin Towers Fountain
- Dodge City: Boot Hill and Museum
- Dodge City: Dodge City Trail of Fame
- Dodge City: Famous Gunfighters Wax Museum
- Dodge City: Kansas Teachers' Hall of Fame
- Dodge City: La Salsa Muffler Man
- Dodge City: Oldest Cowboy in Dodge City
- Dodge City: Play Poker with Doc Holliday
- Dodge City: Santa Fe Trail Tracks
- Dodge City: Time Zone Sundials
- Edgerton: Chick Norris
- El Dorado: Statue of Liberty Replica
- Elkhart: Stand on Three States: Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado
- Ellinwood: The Underground
- Emporia: Founding City of Veterans Day
- Emporia: Giant Coca-Cola Can
- Emporia: National Memorial to Fallen Educators
- Erie: Erie Dinosaur Park
- Fort Riley: Grave of Chief, Last Cavalry Mount in the U.S. Army
- Fort Scott: Stumps of Liberty and Union
- Galena: Bonnie And Clyde's Shotgun
- Galena: Cars on the Route
- Galena: License Plates American Flag
- Garden City: World's Largest Hairball
- Garfield: Tiny Church for President Garfield
- Garnett: Statue of Liberty
- Gaylord: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Glen Elder: Tiny Church
- Goessel: Liberty Bell Made of Wheat
- Goodland: Tractor Parts Grasshopper
- Goodland: World's Largest Easel
- Great Bend: Inventor of the Microchip Monument
- Greensburg: The Big Well
- Grinnell: Monument Rocks
- Halstead: Valeda The Talking Transparent Woman
- Haysville: World's First Batwing Gas Station
- Hays: "Monarch of the Plains" Bison Statue
- Hays: Boot Hill: Man with a Hat
- Hays: Famous Fish-Within-A-Fish Fossil
- Hiawatha: Ag Museum and Windmill Lane
- Hiawatha: The Strange Grave of John Milburn Davis
- Hillsboro: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Hillsboro: Windmill Replica
- Hoisington: Folk Art Headstones of Hoisington
- Holcomb: House of the "In Cold Blood" Murders
- Howard: Hubble's Rubble
- Hutchinson: Big Greaser Muffler Man, Half A Big John
- Hutchinson: Cosmosphere
- Hutchinson: Last Steps on the Moon
- Hutchinson: Richard Brown: A Legend in His Own Time
- Hutchinson: Strataca: Underground Salt Museum
- Independence: Dinosaurs, Nursery Rhyme scenes
- Independence: First Pro Night Baseball Game
- Independence: Little House on the Prairie
- Independence: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Independence: Monkey Island, Home of America's First Space Monkey
- Independence: Pledge of Allegiance Kids
- Iola: Graves of Interest
- Junction City: Atomic Cannon
- Kanorado: Old Kansas-Colorado Marker
- Kansas City: Bed and Toothbrush of Pope John Paul II
- Kansas City: Downtown Burial Mound
- Kansas City: Meals Delivered by Model Railroad
- Kansas City: Mule Deer Country Museum
- Kansas City: Oldest Statue of John Brown
- Kansas City: Sculpture of Iron
- Keystone: Fossils, Art, Evolutionmobile
- Kingman: Bison Sculpture on Hill
- Kingman: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Kinsley: Midway USA
- Lacrosse: Kansas Barbed Wired Museum
- Lansing: Graves of the In Cold Blood Killers
- Lawrence: 50-Foot-Tall Concrete Teepee
- Lawrence: Cenotaph to the Inventor of Basketball
- Lawrence: Comanche, Little Bighorn Survivor
- Lawrence: Haunted Bathroom
- Lawrence: Museum of the Odd
- Lawrence: Nightly Indoor Mermaid and Snowstorm at a Bar
- Lawrence: The Fathers of Basketball
- Lawrence: Wishing Bench
- Leavenworth: C.W. Parker Carousel Museum
- Leavenworth: Rex the Dinosaur
- Lebanon: Geographical Center of the 48 States
- Lecompton: Secret Skeleton in a Casket
- Liberal: Dorothy's House and Land of Oz
- Liberal: International Pancake Day Hall of Fame
- Liberal: Library Shaped Like an Open Book
- Liberal: Mid-America Air Museum
- Liberal: Pioneer Mother of Kansas
- Lincoln: Giant Dragon and Other Farm Equipment Creatures
- Lincoln: Suitcase Tombstone of a Traveling Salesman
- Lindsborg: Mini-Castle of Coronado Heights
- Lindsborg: Rock in a Cage
- Lindsborg: Wild Dala Horse Herd
- Longford: The Smithalo
- Lucas: Bowl Plaza: America's Most Artistic Giant Toilet
- Lucas: Grassroots Art Center
- Lucas: Mini-Mount-Rushmore of Florence Deeble
- Lucas: The Garden of Eden
- Lucas: World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest...
- Lucas: World's Largest Souvenir Travel Plate
- Manhattan: Baby Burger with Goofy Face
- Manhattan: Johnny Kaw, Bigger Than Bunyan
- Manhattan: Manhattan's Hollywood-Style Letters
- Maple Hill: Backward Tombstone
- Marquette: Kansas Motorcycle Museum
- Marquette: Mushroom Rock State Park
- Marysville: Black Squirrel Town
- McLouth: Rock in the Road
- McPherson: Happy Chef - Chimney Sweep
- Meade: Dalton Gang Hideout: Secret Escape Tunnel
- Medicine Lodge: Carry Nation's Whackin' Hatchet
- Minneapolis: Rock City
- Moline: Kansas's Oldest Swinging Bridge
- Morrowville: Replica of World's First Bulldozer
- Mullinville: Political Art of M.T. Liggett
- Muscotah: World's Largest Baseball
- Neodesha: Norman No.1 Oil Well and Museum
- Newton: Beatles Mural
- Newton: World's Tallest Mennonite
- Norton: Gallery of Presidential Also-Rans
- Norton: Restored 1930s Conoco Gas Station
- Norton: Restored 1940s Sinclair Gasoline Station
- Norton: Station 15: Wild West Dummies
- Oakley: Buffalo Bill Kill Statue
- Oakley: Fick Fossil and History Museum
- Osawatomie: John Brown Cabin in a Building
- Osawatomie: Mental Hospital Graveyard
- Overland Park: All-Electric Model House
- Parsons: Small Statue of Liberty
- Piqua: Buster Keaton Museum
- Pittsburg: 2-Headed Calf, Big Steam Shovel
- Prairie Village: Derby Winner Grave in Housing Development
- Pratt: Home of Beautiful Women, Hot and Cold Water Towers
- Pratt: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Pratt: Norden Bombsight Vaults
- Rantoul: Airplanes In Farm Field
- Riverton: 1923 Rainbow Curve Bridge
- Riverton: Kansas Route 66 Sign
- Rose Hill: Jurassic Art: Welded Dinosaurs
- Rush Center: Home of the Largest St. Patrick's Parade
- Russell Springs: Cow Chip Capital of Kansas
- Salina: Auto Parts Sculpture
- Salina: Landlocked Lighthouse
- Salina: Round-the-World Flight Monument
- Satanta: Cement Teepee
- Sedan: Emmett Kelly Museum and 1,500 Whiskey Bottles
- Sedan: Yellow Brick Road
- Sedan: Zebra Safari Men
- Seneca: Second Largest Hand Dug Well in Kansas
- Severy: Odd Sign: Needle in a Haystack
- Shawnee: Bronze Pioneer Mom and Baby
- South Hutchinson: 1,260 Lb. Salt Block and Discovery Well
- St. John: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Stilwell: Highway Bear
- Stull: Gates of Hell
- Topeka: A New Day: Brown v. Board of Education
- Topeka: Chief Drive-In Theatre Sign
- Topeka: Child Grave Mystery Dress-Up
- Topeka: Climb the Statehouse Dome
- Topeka: Downed Cold War Aircraft Memorial
- Topeka: Dr. Crumbine On a Soap Box
- Topeka: Evel Knievel Museum
- Topeka: Fire Hydrant House
- Topeka: General Ike
- Topeka: Goony Golf Green Dinosaur
- Topeka: Humerus Osteopathic Statue
- Topeka: Locally-Famous Big Wren Statue
- Topeka: Matrot Castle and Dinosaur Garden
- Topeka: No Spit Brick and Lincoln Blood Splatter
- Topeka: Pioneer Women of Kansas
- Topeka: Sorrowful Lincoln
- Topeka: The Equality House
- Topeka: Truckhenge
- Troy: Peter Toth Indian Monument
- Ulysses: Jedediah Smith Killed Here
- Victoria: Grave Of The Man Who Gave Us Angus Beef
- Victoria: Massacred Railroad Workers Cemetery
- Wakeeney: Christmas City of the High Plains
- Waldron: Grave of Tammy Faye Bakker
- Wallace: Barbed Wire Buffalo
- Wamego: Old Dutch Windmill
- Wamego: Oz Museum
- Wellington: NDGA National Glass Museum
- Weskan: Mt. Sunflower: Highest Point in Kansas
- West Mineral: Big Brutus
- White Cloud: 40th Parallel Marker
- White Cloud: Monument to the Pig that Inspired the Piggy Bank
- White Cloud: See Four States - Unbelievable View
- Wichita: Boy and the Boot
- Wichita: Bright Spot for Health aka The Pyradomes
- Wichita: Bumper Guard Bulls
- Wichita: Carry Nation Statue
- Wichita: Haunted Kansas Aviation Museum
- Wichita: Horse Made of Car Bumpers
- Wichita: Keeper of the Plains: Ring of Fire
- Wichita: Large Rooftop Rooster Statue
- Wichita: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Wichita: Muffler Man
- Wichita: Museum of World Treasures
- Wichita: Old Cowtown Museum - Wild West Town
- Wichita: Pizza Hut Museum
- Wichita: Sit-In Lunch Counter in Bronze
- Wichita: Steampunk Yard Artist
- Wichita: Stonehenge Jr.
- Wichita: The Troll
- Wichita: WuShock, Fighting-Mad Wheat
- Willis: Fishing Pole and Fish
- Wilmore: Backyard Carousel
- Wilson: Cross of Lights
- Wilson: World's Largest Hand-Painted Czech Egg
- : Agricultural Hall of Fame: Truman's Plow
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Abilene: Crime Doctor and Death Car Memorabilia
- Baxter Springs: Big Rabbit
- Burlingame: Easter Island Heads
- East Wichita: Giant Black Cat
- Edgerton: Failed Marriage, Chopped Car
- Emporia: Cookie Jar Heaven
- Galena: Frecs, Home-Made Miner Statue
- Galena: Transdimensional Divining Dude
- Hillsboro: Robert Wadlow Shoe
- Horton: Reflector House
- Hutchinson: Space-Themed Indoor Pool Area
- Junction City: Don Kracht's Castle Island
- Kansas City: 3D Crosswalk
- Kansas City: Muffler Man
- Kansas City: T-Rex Cafe: Skeletons and Fake Dig Site
- Kingman: Glenn Stark Park
- Lawrence: Indoor Uniroyal Gal
- Lawrence: The Quarter House
- Louisville: Stump of the Former U.S. Champion Elm Tree
- McPherson: Skin of Leo, MGM Lion?
- Mulvane: The God Guy - Biblical Folk Art
- Oakley: Prairie Dog Town
- Overbrook: Backyard Pirate Ship
- Park City: Wild West World
- Salina: Bones of Famous Elephant
- Salina: Prehistoric Indian Burial Pits
- Shawnee County: Subterra Castle: Missile Silo Home
- Topeka: Giant Meat Cleaver
- Wichita: Carry Nation Memorial Drinking Fountain
- Wichita: Giant Creatures Rolling Hay
