Since all those other states don't want you to come and visit, we'll welcome you to Kansas. I travel a lot for my job and when I tell people I'm from Kansas I usually get a snicker or polite smile. Most think of the Sunflower State as flyover country. I'm biased, but IMO nothing could be further from the truth.
Kansas doesn't have mountains or beaches, but we have some beautiful landscapes, remarkable natural features and a lot of friendly folks and a few old grouches.
Those who have traveled through Kansas on I-35 or I-70 have experienced the Flint Hills. The Flint Hills include the last remnants of native Tallgrass Prairie left in the United States (
https://www.nps.gov/tapr/index.htm). In many places in the Flint Hills, you can look out and get pretty much the same view as all those folks heading west in covered wagons 150 years ago saw. I think that's pretty cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Hills
Portrait of a Landscape: The Flint Hills | World Channel
Abilene has the Eisenhower Presidental Library and Museum. The complex includes Ike's boyhood home and grave. For the train buffs, Abilene has a lot of railroad history.
https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/
The Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson exhibits the 2nd largest collection of US space artifacts in the world (second only to the National Air and Space Museum), and the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts outside of Moscow.
Cosmosphere | Hutchinson, Kansas
No visit to Kansas would be complete without the Wizard of Oz. In Wamego, you can visit the Oz Museum. Established in 2004 the Oz houses one of the largest public displays of Oz memorabilia in existence. The museum houses memorabilia from 1939 MGM musical, earlier silent films, as well as "The Wiz."
https://ozmuseum.com/
If that's not enough there's the Evel Knievel Museum in Topeka, the Worlds Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, the world's deepest hand-dug well in Greensburg, and the Giant Van Gogh painting in Goodland.
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