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Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad

Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad
Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas, 67410
The Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad is a heritage railway that offers public excursion train rides May through October. The depot is located in the Historic 1887 Rock Island Depot, Old Abilene Town, south of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Agriculture Hall of Fame

Agriculture Hall of Fame
Bonner Springs, Kansas
The National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame is a museum and educational facility. It includes the Hall of Fame, a Museum of Farming, and a rural village.

Big Well

Big Well
Greensburg, Kiowa County, Kansas, 67054
The Greensburg Well is water well that was designed to provide water for the Santa Fe and Rock Island railroads. It is billed as the world's largest hand-dug well, at 109 feet deep and 32 feet in diameter.

Brown Grand Opera House

Brown Grand Opera House
Concordia, Cloud County, Kansas, 66901
The Brown Grand Theatre is a community-based historical theatre dedicated to enhancing cultural life in North Central Kansas in the United States.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, 66612
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site was established in Topeka, Kansas, on October 26, 1992, by the United States Congress to commemorate the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision aimed at ending racial segregation in public schools.

Chase County Kansas Courthouse

Chase County Kansas Courthouse
Cottonwood Falls, Chase County, Kansas
The courthouse was completed in 1873, making it the oldest courthouse still in use west of the Mississippi River. It is also the state's finest remaining example of Second Empire architecture.

Coronado Heights

Coronado Heights
Falun, Saline County, Kansas, 67442
Coronado Heights is a hill northwest of Lindsborg, Kansas. It is alleged to be near the place where Francisco Vasquez de Coronado gave up his search for the seven cities of gold and turned around to return to Mexico.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum
Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas, 67410
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home is the presidential library, museum, and resting place of Dwight David Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States.

Greyhound Hall of Fame

Greyhound Hall of Fame
Abilene, Dickinson County, Kansas, 67410
A museum dedicated to the history of greyhound racing and breeding. A large portion is devoted to Hall of Fame inductees, famous dogs, and industry pioneers. Live, retired dogs greet visitors at the door.

Iowa Indian Reservation

Iowa Indian Reservation
White Cloud, Kansas
The Iowa Reservation of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska straddles the borders of southeast Richardson County in southeastern Nebraska, Brown, and Doniphan Counties in northeastern Kansas.

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, 67501
The Cosmosphere exhibits the 2nd largest collection of US space artifacts in the world (second only to the National Air and Space Museum), and the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts outside of Moscow.

Kansas State Capitol

Kansas State Capitol
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, 66612
Home to one of the largest capitol domes in the United States, the Kansas dome is the only one in the United States that continues to offer dome tours. There are 296 steps leading up from the fifth floor to the top of the dome.

Museum of World Treasures

Museum of World Treasures
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, 67202
The Museum of World Treasures is a world history museum in Wichita, Kansas. The Museum of World Treasures is not limited to a particular aspect of history, but has opted to display a wide range of objects.

OZ Museum

OZ Museum
Wamego, Pottawatomie County, Kansas, 66547
The OZ Museum was founded in April 2004 and houses one of the largest public displays of Oz memorabilia in existence. The museum houses memorabilia from 1939 MGM musical, earlier silent films, as well as "The Wiz."

Strataca Salt Mine

Strataca Salt Mine
Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas, 67501
Strataca is a salt mine museum in Hutchinson, Kansas. The museum is built within one of the world's largest deposits of rock salt and provides the opportunity to go 650 feet (200 m) beneath the Earth's surface.

Kansas

Kansas State Flag
Postal Code: KS
Capital City: Topeka
Became a State: January 29, 1861
Population: 2,911,641*
Area: 82,278.36 miles2 (213,101.17 km2)

* 2015 est. U.S. Census Bureau
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Top 10 Most Popular Kansas Landmarks

  1. OZ Museum
  2. Big Well
  3. Iowa Indian Reservation
  4. Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
  5. Kansas State Capitol
  6. Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum
  7. Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad
  8. Agriculture Hall of Fame
  9. Chase County Kansas Courthouse
  10. Brown Grand Opera House

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