Kansas is not all flat and ugly
Sites of interest offer landscape - wildlife - architect and other variety...
MONUMENT ROCKS and CASTLE ROCK: These ancient chalk beds have produced scientifically significant fossils and have been highly eroded into unusual spires and shapes, making them spectacular landmarks on the plains of western Kansas.
Mushroom Rock State Park has sandstone rocks resembling giant mushrooms -
Cheyenne Bottoms is a 41,000-acre wetland complex in central Kansas and one of the top staging areas (the places migrating birds stop to feed and rest) for shorebirds and waterfowl in the United States. These wetlands host tens of thousands of shorebirds and up to 1/4 million waterfowl each year during their migrations.
Cheyenne Bottoms and the nearby
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge are critical habitat for whooping cranes, which visit for a few weeks in March or April and again in October or November.
The
"Cathedral of the Plains" is Saint Fidelis Catholic Church in Victoria, Kansas. It has seating for 1,100 people, which, at the time of it's dedication in 1911, made it the largest church west of the Mississippi River. The church is 220 feet long, 110 feet wide at the transepts and 75 feet at the nave. Its ceiling is 44 feet above the ground and the towers are 141 feet tall.
BIG WELL: The construction of the 1887 well was an engineering marvel in its day and it is the world’s largest hand-dug well.
EISENHOWER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM: Dwight D. Eisenhower was the only president who also had been a five-star general thus making this display of his remarkable lifetime achievements significant.
KANSAS COSMOSPHERE & SPACE CENTER: The Cosmosphere has one of the most significant collections of U.S. and Russian space artifacts in the world.
KANSAS UNDERGROUND SALT MUSEUM: The only underground salt museum in a working mine in the western hemisphere showcases our natural treasure, salt, 650 feet below the earth’s surface.
TALLGRASS PRAIRIE NATIONAL PRESERVE: The preserve represents the last significant example of the tallgrass prairie in North America.