• Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad, Attraction: 10-mile train ride over rolling flatlands, $
• Brookville Hotel, Attraction: Home-style chicken dinners, $$
• Dickinson County Heritage Center & Museum, Attraction: Early agricultural cow town, homemaking, industry, relics of pioneer life, antique carousel, blacksmith exhibit, log cabin, $
• Eisenhower Center (2 mi S of I-70 at junction with SR15
  • Eisenhower Home, Attraction: Boyhood home of President Eisenhower, 0$
  • Eisenhower Museum, Attraction: Items relating to President Eisenhower's life & experiences, 0$
• Museum of Independent Telephony, Attraction: History of the telephone and its early proprietors since the original patent issued to Graham Bell in 1876, $

• Wabaunsee County Historical Museum, Attraction: General store, textile shop, 1900s schoolroom, American Indian artifacts, 1925 Model T, 1223 Reo fire truck, 0$

• Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum (1.5 mi S of Arkansas City on US77), Attraction: Depicts the 1893 land rush when 150,000 settlers raced to claim 6 million acres, $

• Pioneer-Krier Museum, Attraction: Historical items in late 1800s room settings, bridle bit reported to belong to Coronado's expedition, barbed wire collection, American Indian artifacts, 0$

• Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, Attraction: Learn about the life of Amelia Earhart, $
• Atchison County Historical Society Museum, Attraction: Amelia Earhart memorabilia, railroad & steamboat artifacts, antique weapons, 0$
• Evah C. Cray Historical Home Museum, Attraction: 1882 home resembles a Scottish castle, 1800s period rooms with antiques, $

• Midland Railway, Attraction: Travel through woods and farmland, over a 200-ft bridge in early 1900s coaches, $

• Republic County Historical Museum (0.5 E of US81 on US36), Attraction: Historical clothing, furniture, & other relics from area, 1870s log cabin, 1904 church, 0$

• Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Dinner, Attraction: Chuckwagon style dinners & Western music, $$
• Hopalong Cassidy Cowboy Museum, Attraction: World's largest collection of Hopalong memorabilia, $
• Wagons Ho RV Park, Attraction: Partial hookups, $$

• Mitchell County Museum (1 mi S of US24), Attraction: Period rooms, collections of glassware, tools, clothing, 0$

• National Agricultural Center, Attraction: Antique farm machinery & implements, re-created early 1900s rural village, narrow-gauge railroad, $
• Wyndotte County Museum, Attraction: History of emigrant American Indian tribes, development of industry, & arrival of Europeans, 0$

• Coffey County Museum at Burlington, Attraction: Collections of firearms & arrowheads, restored 1896 one-room schoolhouse, 1895 church, 0$

• Mushroom Rock State Park, Attraction: Unusual rocks shaped like mushrooms, 0$

• Prairie Museum of Art & History, Attraction: Bisque & china dolls, toys, ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture, furnished sod house, wooden-fan windmill, country church, one-room school, $

• Cloud County Historical Museum, Attraction: History of local WWII POW camp, Steuben glass collection, 1928 Blosser airplane, antique toy collection, $

• Hays House, Attraction: Home style food
• Kaw Mission State Historic Site, Attraction: Mission-period artifacts, 1851 school for Kaw Indian children, 0$

• Boot Hill, Attraction: Historic cemetery, Fort Dodge jail, replica of 1870s Front Street, $
• Ford Home of Stone & Museum, Attraction: 2.5-ft thick limestone walls, rooms furnished in period, memorabilia of pioneer women, 0$
• Fort Dodge (on US 400), Attraction: Stone building erected in 1867, military artifacts, 0$
• Santa Fe Trail at Dodge City (9 mi W of Dodge City), Attraction: Remnants of the trail that helped settle the SW in the mid-1800s

• Kansas Oil & Gas Museum, Attraction: Replica of a 1920s oil town, oil pumps, & drilling machinery, $

• Elk River Gorge, Attraction: View falls at the bottom of gorge from 1893 Iron Truss Bridge

• Cimarron National Grassland
• Point of Rocks, Attraction: Important point on Santa Fe Trail

• Ellis Railroad Museum, Attraction: Re-created station, railroad cars, period clothing, over 1,600 dolls, train rides on on-third scale streamliner, $

• Hodgden House Museum Complex, Attraction: 1878 house, church, livery stable, rural storehouse, general store in log building, farm machinery, $
• Mushroom Rock State Park (off Rte141), Attraction: 25-ft tall rocks shaped from soft sandstone by the winds

• Lyon County Historical Museum, Attraction: Settlement of Lyon County, pioneer items, log cabin furnished in period, 0$

• Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site, Attraction: Mission & school for American Indian children established in 1839, 0$

• Custer House, Attraction: Named in honor Lt Col George Custer, 0$
• First Territorial Capitol of Kansas State Historic Site (Exit 301 off I-70), Attraction: 1855 building housed early government, 0$
• Fort Riley Regimental Museum (Bldg 203), Attraction: Displays regarding 4 major campaigns which the First Infantry participated in, 0$
• United States Cavalry Museum (Bldg 205), History of the mounted horse soldier from 1775 to 1950, 0$

• Mennonite Heritage Museum, Attraction: Replica of barracks-like immigrant house built by the railroad for new arrivals, early items from households, farms, schools, & churches, $

• Goodland High Plains Museum, Attraction: Replica of first patented helicopter from 1910, 1902 Holsman rope-driven automobile, pioneer memorabilia, 0$

• Barton County Historical Village (S on US281), Attraction: 10 buildings including schoolhouse, church, pioneer rock house, depot, post office, blacksmith shop, barns, $

• Big Well, Attraction: 32-ft diameter, 109-ft deep hand-dug well, stairs to bottom of well, $

• Hollenberg Pony Express Station (1 mi E of Hanover on Rte243), Attraction: Only unaltered station still standing in its original location, general store, $

• Ellis County Historical Society Museum, Attraction: Replica of early schoolroom, other exhibits, $
• Fort Hays State Historic Site, Attraction: Restored buildings of Fort Hays including stone guardhouse, blockhouse, officers' quarters, military & pioneer history, 0$

• Hill City Oil Museum, Attraction: Relics from the local oil boom, replica of old-time service station

• Brown County Historical Society & Museum, Attraction: County history from 1854, doctor's room, general store, Victorian kitchen, schoolroom, $

• Native American Heritage Museum State Historic Site (2 mi E on Old US36), Attraction: Housed in old Presbyterian mission building from 1846, history of the American Indian, 0$

• Mennonite Settlement Museum
• Pioneer Adobe House Museum (1 mi S of US56), Attraction: Built in 1876 by a Mennonite family using adobe bricks, 7-room house contains period furnishings, adjacent machine shed with horse-drawn farm implements, Dutch Friesen Windmill is replica of 1876 wind-driven mill, country schoolhouse, $

• Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Museum, Attraction: Impressive collection of space artifacts, airplanes, & more, $$
• Reno County Museum, Attraction: County history including salt mining and American Indian life, 1920s windmill, railroad caboose, locomotive, WPA outhouse, 0$

• Independence Historical Museum, Attraction: Regional history from the 1600s to the present, American Indian culture, pioneer artifacts, Civil War items, 1884 schoolroom, furnished log cabin, $
• Little House on the Prairie (1.3 mi SW of Independence on US75, Attraction: Log cabin reconstructed on the site where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived 1869-70, post office, one-room schoolhouse, 0$
• Montgomery County Historical Museum, Attraction: Reconstructed log cabin, one-room schoolhouse, military displays, 0$

• Allen County Historical Museum, Attraction: 1869 Old Jail, 0$

• Fort Harker Museum (on SR140), Attraction: Horse-drawn ambulance, uniforms, equipment from WWI & II, train depot, $

• Edwards County Historical Museum (junction of US50 & US56), Attraction: Furnished sod house, 1884 church, blacksmith shop, horse-drawn machinery, early fire engine, 0$

• Kansas Barbed Wire Museum, Attraction: Over 2,100 varieties of barbed wire, 0$
• Post Rock Museum, Attraction: Tools used to create stone fence posts used because wood was scarce on the plains, 0$

• Fort Larned National Historical Site (6 mi W of Larned on SR156), Attraction: Original buildings built in 1868 to guard Santa Fe Trail, reconstructed blockhouse, $
• Santa Fe Trail Center Museum (2 mi W of Larned on SR156), Attraction: History of one of America's most important frontier trails, lifestyles of early Kansas pioneers, Wichita Indian artifacts, sod house, one-room schoolhouse, dugout house, $

• Reuter Organ Company, Attraction: Tour of pipe organ factory
• Watkins Community Museum of History, Attraction: Area history, Victorian parlor, 1920 electric car, horsedrawn surrey, 1850s cannon, 0$

• Fort Leavenworth, Attraction: Oldest fort in continuous operation west of the Mississippi River, established in 1827, important Army headquarters during the Mexican War 1846-48, 0$
• Frontier Army Museum, Attraction: History of the frontier army and the Civil, Mexican, & Indian wars, carriage Abraham Lincoln rode in while visiting Leavenworth, Conestoga wagon, army carriages JN4 "Jenny" biplane, 0$

Exact center of contiguous U.S.

• Constitution Hall, Attraction: Location where Kansas was admitted to the Union as a pro-slavery state, known as the birthplace of the Civil War as a result of the ensuing actions, 0$

• Coronado Museum, Attraction: Pioneer life, artifacts from Coronado's exploration of area, 0$
• Dorothy's House, Land of Oz, Attraction: Replica of farmhouse from which Dorothy and Toto were whisked away by a twister into the Land of Oz, re-creation of the yellow-Brick Road, movie scenes & memorabilia, $
• Mid-America Air Museum, Attraction: Fifth largest air museum in U.S., military & civilian aircraft, WWII fighters & bombers, more than 80 aircraft, $

Lindsborg [NE]

Swedish village

• McPherson County Old Mill Museum, Attraction: Steam-powered flour mill, historic buildings, Swedish Pavilion, $

• Coronado Quivira Museum, Attraction: Commemorates visit to area by Coronado in 1541, Quivira Indian relics, $

• Konza Prairie Biological Station (S of Manhattan of McDowell Creek Rd), Attraction: Hiking trails, buffalo herd

• Original Pony Express Home Station No 1 Museum, Attraction: 1859 headquarters for the postal riders, early post office boxes from 1854, $

• Dalton Gang Hideout, Escape Tunnel & Museum, Attraction: Furnishings from 1887 and a 95-ft escape tunnel to the barn where getaway horses were stabled, $
• Meade County Historical Society Museum, Attraction: Exhibits depicting area history, one-room schoolhouse, church, sod house, general store, blacksmith shop, livery barn, sheepherder's wagon, saddles, 0$

• Rock City (3.5 mi S on SR106), Attraction: 200 sandstone formations in interesting shapes, $

• Norman No 1, Attraction: Replica of first successful commercial oil well west of the Mississippi River, history of area oil industry & agriculture, 0$

• Kauffman Museum (Exit 34 off I-375), Attraction: Historic buildings, late 1800s homesteader's log cabin Kansas farmstead with 1875 house & 1886 barn, exhibits depicting arrival of Mennonites form Europe to the Central Plains in the 1870s, their culture & heritage, $

• Prairie Dog State Park (5 mi SW of Norton), Attraction: 1.4-mi Prairie Dog Nature Trail, camping, $

• Buffalo Bill Cody Statue, Attraction: Statue of Buffalo Bill hunting buffalo near where he earned his nickname in 1886 by shooting 69 buffalo in one day
• Monument Rocks (S of Oakley off Hwy83), Attraction: Unique foundations that rise abruptly from surrounding treeless plain, 0$
• Prairie Dog Town (Exit 70 off I-70), Attraction: Animals native to Western Kansas, $

• Decatur County Museum, Attraction: 13 buildings including a sod house, train depot, schoolhouse, land office, livery stable, 1930s gas station, grocery store, pioneer exhibits, American Indians artifacts, $
• Last Indian Raid Museum, Attraction: Relics from an 1878 raid by Cheyenne Indians trying to allude the U.S. Army, rooms with late 1800s furnishings, $

• Old Oxford Mill, Attraction: Restored 1874 mill, 0$

• Pawnee Rock State Historic Site, Attraction: Landmark on the Santa Fe trail, site where Indians attacked wagon trains, $

• Fort Bissell, Attraction: Reconstruction of an 1872 fort, antiques, doctor's office, barbershop, 1870 log house, furnished sod house, original post office, one-room schoolhouse, early general store, 0$

• Crawford County Historical Museum, Attraction: Horse-drawn vehicles, vintage clothing, deep coal-mining, farm implements, 1885 schoolhouse, 1922 Marion steam shovel, mom & pop store, 0$

• Linn County Historical Museum, Attraction: Period-room settings, old general store, antique cars, history of Civil War events in the area, 0$
• Trading Post Museum (mile marker 96 on US69), Attraction: American Indian period before settlement, fur trade era, early settlement, the Border War, and the Civil War, 0$

• Pratt County Historical Museum, Attraction: American Indian artifacts, pioneer items, period rooms from the late 1800s, Old Time Main St, reconstructed 1800s town including a general store, post office, bank, jail, & icehouse, 0$

• Pawnee Indian Village State Historic Site (8 mi N of US36 or SR266), Attraction: Excavated 1820 Pawnee Indian dwelling, exhibits depicting Indian life, 0$

• Oil Patch Museum, Attraction: History of local oil exploration dating from 1923

• Central Kansas Flywheel Historical Museum, Attraction: Vast collection of historical relics including farm machinery & implements, barbershop, print shop, general store, old post office, filling stations, & schoolhouse, $
• Yesteryear Museum, Attraction: Way of life & instruments used by the area's ancestors, 1860 Kingsley-Ferguson Sawmill, Cox School House, 1900 Wells Methodist Church, Jayhawk Stacker, OMC Tractor, 0$

• Fort Markley, Attraction: Livery stable, general store, bank, and other vintage buildings moved from nearby frontier towns, camping, $

• Old Shawnee Town, Attraction: Two log cabins, jail house, barn, smokehouse, schoolhouse relocated from surrounding area, $

• Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (2 mi N of Strong City on SR177), Attraction: 11,000 acres of unspoiled prairie preserved just as seen by the early pioneers

• Combat Air Museum (Hanger 602), Attraction: Examples of aeronautical technology from all U.S. military conflicts from the early 1900s to present, $
• Historic Ward-Meade Park, Attraction: Botanical gardens surrounding 1870 Victorian Ward-Meade house, log cabin, late 1800s schoolhouse, Mulvane general store, Santa Fe Railroad depot, Lingo Livery Stable, drugstore, physician's & dentist's office, $
• Kansas Museum of History, Attraction: Kansas history from prehistoric to present times, 0$

• Wagon Bed Springs, Attraction: Important site on the Santa Fe Trail on this dry & dangerous stretch

Christmas City on the High Plains, holiday lights

• Western Kansas Saloon & Grill, Attraction: Great food & steaks in an Old West atmosphere

• Fort Wallace Museum, Attraction: Site of 1865 fort, museum displays relics from days of the Indian wars, 0$

• Old Dutch Mill & Wamego Museum Complex, Attraction: Reconstructed 1870s mill, White Chapel School, jail, log cabin, $
• Oz Museum, Attraction: Over 2,000 pieces of Oz memorabilia, $

• Chisholm Trail Museum, Attraction: Changing way of life in Kansas since state was settled, Chisholm trail, agricultural livelihood, 0$

• Big Brutus (on Hwy102), Attraction: Giant coal-mining shovel, RV sites, $

• Kansas Aviation Museum (5 mi S of US54), Attraction: Planes, aircraft engines, & models, $
• Mid-America All-Indian Center Museum, Attraction: North American Indian heritage, traditions, & cultures, village re-creates life of early tribes featuring a Wichita grass lodge, Sioux teepee, & Native American Garden, $
• Old Cowtown Museum, Attraction: Restorations & reproductions of more than 40 buildings from 1865-80, Wichita's first jail, fully stocked general store, working newspaper shop, carpenter shop, drugstore, one-room school, historic houses, saloon, railroad depot, blacksmith shop, working farm, $
• Wichita-Sedgewick County Historical Museum, Attraction: Re-creation of 1910 drugstore, collection of pattern-pressed glass from the 1890s, hand-painted china, toys, 1920s garage, Model T Ford, $

• Czech Museum, Attraction: Czech handcrafts, quilts, pioneer artifacts, 0$

• Town murals, Attraction: 15 murals depict town history

• Frannie's Fix & Go Diner, Attraction: Meals at $1 a plate
• Woodson County Historical Museum