Kansas City, Missouri
Kessler Park Reservoir
An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.
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Kansas City, Missouri
An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Kansas City, Missouri
This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.
Kansas City, Missouri
The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.
Kansas City, Missouri
A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.
Kansas City, Missouri
This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.
Kansas City, Missouri
Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.
Kansas City, Missouri
Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.
Kansas City, Kansas
This sacred space and gathering spot for the Wyandot Nation has been the surrounded by controversy and confusion.
Kansas City, Kansas
This Italianate Villa-style castle is pretty to look at, just keep off the private property.
Kansas City, Missouri
This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kansas City, Missouri
A magnificent church designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Kansas City, Missouri
The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.
Prairie Village, Kansas
A tiny racehorse graveyard in the middle of a quiet Kansas City suburb.
Kansas City, Kansas
Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?
Topeka, Kansas
These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka has its own great wall, and it's covered in colorful images from the city's history.
Topeka, Kansas
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
Topeka, Kansas
A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.
Wamego, Kansas
This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.
Wamego, Kansas
During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.
Junction City, Kansas
A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.