Kansas

One grocery store in a tiny Amish settlement sells Amish-made foods at discount prices, and the whole town…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 5

Chalk cliffs up to 100 feet tall rise out of flat prairie, and they started as the floor…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 5

More than 3,200 plant varieties live under one roof here. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 5

A buffet on a street called Pancake Boulevard is best known for crab legs, not flapjacks. Wednesday nights…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 4

Products from more than 40 countries fill one single grocery store. That alone made me stop scrolling. The…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 4

One Kansas hotel restaurant has guest room doors with cowboy-spur knockers. That detail alone makes me want to…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 4

More than 40 kinds of poinsettias fill one holiday shop, and some of them aren’t red or white…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 4

Sandstone bluffs up to 50 feet tall rise from a canyon floor, and a horse trail runs right…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 3

A stone castle built during the Great Depression sits on a bluff, watching over fall colors that skip…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 3

A Kansas coconut cream pie once beat out the whole country for the title of best slice in…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 3

Pickle breadsticks are real, and you can find them in a farm town with fewer than 500 residents.…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 3

Your meal here starts with a warm flour tortilla, a blue bottle of squeeze margarine, and fresh salsa.…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 2

Striped bass, a fish famous for ocean living, thrive in a lake surrounded by prairie. The water is…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 2

One shop on this list is built from a single person’s 50-year collection. Another only opens its doors…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 2

A tiny counter diner just landed third place on a national list of the best roadside diners. It…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 2

One steakhouse on this list sits beside an airport runway, so your ribeye can come with a side…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 1

A beaver and its keeper can meet you one-on-one, and you only need to book two weeks ahead.…

By Owen Bradwell · Nov 1

Fossils from an ancient sea dot the rock formations around a clear prairie lake. Yes, sea fossils, in…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 1

The donut dough here takes three full days to make. It starts with a sourdough starter, which is…

By Jenna Whitfield · Nov 1

Early fall has a way of making breakfast cravings oddly specific. Suddenly, apple and cinnamon sound less like…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 31

Some bakeries are convenient. Others make you look at the map and decide a long drive suddenly sounds…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 31

Freshwater fish is one of those meals that exposes a kitchen fast. Too heavy and the fish disappears.…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 31

“Are you really driving that far for a sandwich?” For a good corned beef sandwich, I think the…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 31

One sandwich counter on this list names more than 20 sandwiches after rock and roll legends. One tribute…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 30

A prime rib recipe that has been cooking for 30 years only shows up on weekends. It comes…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 30

The steam engine that pulls this little railroad was built in 1919, and it’s the only operating steam…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 30

A fluffy wild cat named Collins wears a frown that never seems to clock out. He’s a Pallas’s…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 30

One fabric shop near Fort Riley opens its doors just one day a week. That single Saturday is…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 29

Brisket rangoons are a real menu item in a Kansas City suburb, and I still can’t stop thinking…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 29

A university museum here keeps a live honeybee colony on display, right beside dinosaur fossils. That alone tells…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 29

A family of fifth-generation plantsmen and plantswomen runs this greenhouse, and their roots in local growing stretch back…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 29

Fourteen cooking stations. More than 60 Italian dishes. A cobblestone piazza built right inside a restaurant, with fountains…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 28

A big bronze bull stands right in the middle of the dining room. Nobody walks past that without…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 28

One quilt shop on this list doubles as a toy store, with Lego bricks and art supplies sitting…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 28

A family legend from 1966 claims the Spurlocks return to a quiet farm town every October. Every fall,…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 28

Outlaws once hid out in a sandstone canyon that now has a hiking trail named after their horse…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 27

A massive chandelier that once lit up a movie theater now hangs over shelves of cookie jars and…

By Owen Bradwell · Oct 27

The tiny jukebox selectors at the booths of this steakhouse no longer play a single song. They stay…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 27

A tiny pizza shop in a small town near the Oklahoma line keeps old-school pinball machines next to…

By Jenna Whitfield · Oct 27