Weird day trips from Kansas City
The strangest Kansas City finds are often a short drive out. These 5 day trips — Glore Psychiatric Museum, Museum of Odd, National Silk Art Museum and more — are each hand-vetted and sourced: ghost towns, hot-spring soaks, roadside oddities, and odd small-town museums worth the gas. A weird day trip is its own kind of date.
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Glore Psychiatric Museum
Housed in a building adjacent to a former state lunatic asylum, this world-renowned museum chronicles the his…
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Museum of Odd
Located inside the private residential home of estate liquidator Randy Walker, this quirky museum is a mind-b…
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National Silk Art Museum
Housed in an old bank building, this museum showcases the world's largest collection of rare 18th- and 19th-c…
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The Forge
Tucked inside a historic blacksmith shop along the Santa Fe Trail, this 1920s-style speakeasy is hidden behin…
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Powell Observatory
Located in a dark-sky park south of the metro, this observatory houses the 30-inch Ruisinger telescope, one o…