Guides · Kansas City
Kansas City
21 places · 7 areas · any 7 stops free, then $4.99 for the whole city · offline map 30.9 MB
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An example half day
6 of the highlights, 1 day, about 3.1 mi (5.0 km), planned by the app's own engine and shown here with their guide. In the app you choose your own.
Day 1 · ~3.1 mi (5.0 km)
1
City Market
River Market; public farmers' market running since 1857, with weekend markets and year-round shops
Come on a weekend morning for the farmers' stalls, and eat your way through the shops and restaurants around the square.
2
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
1601 Broadway; Moshe Safdie's 2011 concert center of two arching shells and a glass lobby
See the shell-like arches and the glass lobby from outside, and come back for the ballet, opera or symphony.
3
TWA Corporate Headquarters Building
1735 Baltimore Avenue; TWA's 1956 modernist headquarters, crowned by a Moonliner rocket on the roof
Look up at the silver Moonliner rocket on the roof corner from Baltimore Avenue.
4
Crossroads Arts District
Around 19th Street and Baltimore Avenue; the city's gallery district in old warehouses and auto row buildings
Walk the warehouse blocks between the galleries, studios and restaurants, in the evening when the district is liveliest.
5
Union Station
25th Street and Grand Boulevard; 1914 Beaux-Arts station with its 95-foot Grand Hall, home of Science City
Stand in the Grand Hall under its 95-foot ceiling, then walk the skywalk to Crown Center.
6
Crown Center
Beside Union Station; Hallmark's 85-acre city-within-a-city of 1971, linked to the station by walkways
Walk over from Union Station on the covered walkway, and browse the shops and restaurants.
More of the top sights
A few of the 21 places in the full guide. Each one has its own written guide in the app: what to do, what to notice, the history, and why it hits.
National WWI Museum and Memorial
Liberty Memorial; 1926 memorial tower over the nation's museum of the First World War
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street; free 1933 art museum with Steven Holl's glass Bloch Building and the giant Shuttlecocks
18th and Vine Historic District
East of downtown; birthplace of Kansas City jazz and the historic center of Black business in the city
Country Club Plaza
South Kansas City; J.C. Nichols' Seville-styled shopping district of 1923, with towers, fountains and holiday lights
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
500 West US Highway 24, Independence; 1957 presidential library with the graves of Harry and Bess Truman
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
18th and Vine; museum of Black baseball founded in 1990 by former players, ending on a field of bronzes
Pony Express National Museum
914 Penn Street, St. Joseph; museum in the original stables where the Pony Express began in 1860
Areas
Liberty Memorial and Union Station · Crossroads · River Market · 18th and Vine · Museum District and Plaza · Independence · St. Joseph
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