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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Kansas

126 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Kansas

Updated June 18, 2024

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  1. Atchison
  2. Cawker City
  3. Chanute
  4. Fort Leavenworth
  5. Great Bend
  6. Humboldt
  7. Hutchinson
  8. Junction City
  9. Kansas City
  10. Lawrence
  11. Liberal
  12. Lindsborg
  13. Lucas
  14. Manhattan
  15. Oakley
  16. Topeka
  17. Wamego
  18. Wichita
  19. Wilson

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The Sunflower State has a reputation for being flat—in fact, scientists have shown that it is objectively way flatter than a pancake. Far from being featureless, though, Kansas can be mind-bending in its own weird way. Maybe it all started with The Wizard of Oz. From a missile silo that once dominated the world's LSD supply to rock formations shaped like mushrooms, roadside art that will make you think you've been whisked away by a tornado, and a giant pile of sock monkeys, Kansas is full of treasures that are sure to make you do a double take.

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Museums 21
History & Culture 17
Collections 12
Roadside Attractions 11
Geology 9
Monuments 9
Nature 9
Outsider Art 9

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Podcast: They Also Ran Gallery

Celebrate presidential politics—with the ones who lost.
by The Podcast Team
All illustrations: John Mata for Atlas Obscura

Puzzle Monday: War Heroes Crossword

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The 6888th Battalion was led by 26-year-old Major Charity Adams Earley, the first Black woman to become an officer in the Women’s Army Corps.

The Little Known History of World War II's All-Black, All-Female Battalion

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion helped connect soldiers on the front lines with their families back home.
by Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing

Podcast: Atlas Obscura Presents How To!

Setting up a roadside attraction with How To! host Amanda Ripley.
by The Podcast Team

Podcast: The World’s Largest Collection of Small Versions of Large Things

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
by The Podcast Team
This unusual artifact—now housed at the Columbia University Libraries—is part comic collection, part journal of life in the 1930s.

The 36-Pound Comic Scrapbook That Chronicles the Great Depression

How the collection went from a small-town barbershop to a big-time library.
by Amadea Tanner
An aerial view of a portion of the site that a drone surveyed in Kansas.

How Drones Help Archaeologists Peer Into the Earth

A late-night drone flight spotted a large, circular earthwork beneath a field in Kansas.
by Karen Chernick
This ancient shark may have been slow-moving, but it was still pretty pointy.

Found: A Sluggish Ancestor of the Great White Shark, in Kansas

A relic of North America’s shallow sea.
by Isaac Schultz

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