17 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.
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The 37th Parallel UFO Highway
· 3.7 mi
The 37th parallel has a nickname: America's UFO Highway. Cut a line across the country at 37 degrees north latitude and you string together a wildly disproportionate number of unexplained events — strange lights, cattle…
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Kansas Aviation Museum
· 5.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Prepare for takeoff into Wichita's soaring aviation legacy at the Kansas Aviation Museum! This isn't just another museum; it's housed in the original Wichita Municipal Airport terminal, built in 1935. For nearly two…
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Allen–Lambe House
· 9.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Pull over here for a sec; this unassuming house is a piece of architectural history. It's the Allen-Lambe House, one of the few Prairie Style homes in Kansas, and it was designed by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright.…
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Air Capital, Pizza Pioneers
· 9.7 mi
Wichita earned its 'Air Capital of the World' nickname the hard way, by actually building the planes. Cessna, Beechcraft, Learjet and Stearman all took root here, and to this day a huge slice of the world's…
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Satellite Tornadoes: the Dance at Ground Level
· 9.7 mi
The textbook Fujiwhara effect is a big-storm phenomenon, hurricanes and typhoons circling each other out over the ocean. But out here over the plains, the same dance sometimes shrinks all the way down to the ground. It…
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How the air-raid siren learned to mean tornado
· 9.7 mi
That siren you hear in storm country was built to warn you about something else entirely. On April 22, 1952, Wichita tested its first air-raid siren, mounted on Roosevelt School at 2200 E Douglas, a Cold War gadget…
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Why tornadoes happen HERE
· 9.7 mi
Ever wonder why the Plains breed so many tornadoes? It's geography. Right over country like this, three different air masses come barreling in from three directions. Warm, wet air pushes up off the Gulf of Mexico. Hot,…
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Carrie Nation: The Hatchet and the Saloon
· 9.7 mi · Historical
On December 27, 1900, temperance crusader Carrie Nation stormed into the Carey Hotel bar in Wichita declaring herself the right arm of God, launching her nationally famous hatchet-wielding campaign against saloons.
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Wichita: Air Capital of the World
· 9.7 mi · Historical Marker
Wichita earned the title Air Capital of the World after becoming home to Cessna, Beechcraft, Learjet, and Stearman, producing more aircraft than any other city in the world.
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The Tornado Capital of the World
· 9.7 mi
Out here on the Plains, you are sitting in the tornado capital of the entire planet. The U.S. National Severe Storms Laboratory says about 1,200 tornadoes touch down across the United States in an average year. No other…
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White Castle (Original)
· 9.7 mi · Things to Do
The first fast food hamburger chain opened in 1921 in Wichita KS. Sliders started here.
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The Wichita Triangle
· 9.7 mi
Somewhere in the Wichita metro, geocachers have been playing with the idea of a local Bermuda Triangle — a zone where caches mysteriously vanish and things go missing for no good reason. The puzzle cache called the…
