The Sunflower State: Home to the world’s largest prairie dog, a big well and the actual Garden of Eden.
Did you understand the references? Read on!
Do you have no idea what I’m talking about? Read on, as we discover 7 Kansas museums that are just too weird for words.
1.) Kansas Underground Salt Museum: Strataca (Hutchinson)
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Wikimedia Commons Fun Fact: There are 14 other salt mines in the U.S., but none of them are accessible to tourists. #itsgoodtobeinkansas
2.) Garden of Eden (Lucas)
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Flickr/Kansas Tourism At first glance, the Garden of Eden looks like something you’d see in a horror movie…but once you begin exploring, you will discover some of the most unique and exquisite concrete folk art in the world.
3.) The Kansas Barbed Wire Museum (La Crosse)
Facebook Back in my television reporter days, I visited the Barbed Wire Museum and have to admit that they have quite the collection!
4.) The Big Well Museum & Visitors Center (Greensburg)
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Facebook The name of the Museum sums it up: it is the world’s largest hand dug well.
5.) The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things (Lucas)
The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things
Facebook The name of this traveling roadside attraction makes me smile…I will follow this collection of the largest smaller things anywhere!
6.) Prairie Dog Town
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Yelp Sadly, this poster child for a bizarre roadside attraction has closed..
7.) Museum of Odd (Lawrence)
Facebook Is that a gigantic pile of sock monkeys, or are you just happy to see me?
Which of these attractions is your favorite?
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Fun Fact: There are 14 other salt mines in the U.S., but none of them are accessible to tourists. #itsgoodtobeinkansas
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At first glance, the Garden of Eden looks like something you’d see in a horror movie…but once you begin exploring, you will discover some of the most unique and exquisite concrete folk art in the world.
Back in my television reporter days, I visited the Barbed Wire Museum and have to admit that they have quite the collection!
Wikimedia Commons
The name of the Museum sums it up: it is the world’s largest hand dug well.
The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things
The name of this traveling roadside attraction makes me smile…I will follow this collection of the largest smaller things anywhere!
Yelp
Sadly, this poster child for a bizarre roadside attraction has closed..
Is that a gigantic pile of sock monkeys, or are you just happy to see me?
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