Landmarks in Kansas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.