The list includes businesses, museums, historical monuments, and theme parks.
Arts
Business
Historical buildings
- Science City at Union Station, interactive science center, Gottlieb Planetarium, City Extreme Screen theater, and exhibitions.
- Union Station, with restaurants, shopping, and special shows.
- Tiffany Castle, built 1909 for Flavel B. Tiffany who founded the Tiffany Springs neighborhood
- City workhouse castle, built 1897 as a city jail
- Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, formerly a Hyatt, site of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
Memorials and landmarks
Museums
- Airline History Museum at Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport.
- The Money Museum of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, with exhibits and tours of the multi-story cash vault.
- Irish Museum and Cultural Center located in Kansas City's Union Station.
- Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, local area history and natural sciences museum in a Beaux-Arts mansion.
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the region's largest art museum, located near the Country Club Plaza (see below)
- Arabia Steamboat Museum, artifacts and history of a sidewheel steamboat sunk in 1856, recovered in 1987-88, with interactive displays and tour.
- The National Toy and Miniature Museum, formerly the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City, is the largest collection of classic toys and fine-scale miniatures in the Midwest.
- Trailside Center, a tourist center, museum, and community facility. Items on display include exhibits of Civil War items related to the Battle of Westport as well as items related to the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails. The center is staffed by volunteers.
Parks
- Battle of Little Blue River site, Big Blue Battlefield Park, 63rd and Manchester Tfwy, American Civil War site.
- Battle of Westport sites, a major battle of the American Civil War.
- Ewing and Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden, arboretum near Country Club Plaza
- Hodge Park: Shoal Creek Living History Museum, with 20 authentic buildings from the 1800s, events, tours, and historical reenactments
- Loose Park, the third largest park in Kansas City, includes Rose Garden and Civil War markers from the Battle of Westport.
- Swope Park, a 1,805-acre city park containing many other facilities.
- Kansas City Zoo, 10th largest zoo in the US
- Lakeside Nature Center, large, city-operated wildlife rescue and nature center with exhibits and woodland trails in Swope Park.
- Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun amusement parks.
Shopping
- Power & Light District, downtown entertainment district
- Country Club Plaza, America's first shopping center designed for the automobile; boutiques, stores, and dining.
- Crown Center shopping, entertainment, restaurant, and hotel complex.
- Westport, historic district; restaurants, entertainment, and nightlife.
- Zona Rosa, retail, office, and residential with shopping, restaurants, and entertainment.
- River Market district, pioneer town of Kansas historical site, City Market, Arabia Steamboat Museum
Sports
See also
References