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Independence City Center
Kansas City MO
~0.24 miles from Independence city center
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Harry S. Truman National Historic Site (Home)
Kansas City MO
~0.44 miles from Independence city center
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The Harry S. Truman National Historic Site preserves both the family farm and the longtime home of Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd President of the United States. The Wallace House (Truman Home) is in Independence, Missouri, and the Truman Farm Home in Grandview, Missouri: both are within the Kansas City, Missouri, metropolitan area and are approximately 15 miles apart.
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Kauffman Stadium - Kansas City Royals
One Royal Way Kansas City MO - 816-921-8000
~4.64 miles from Independence city center
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Ewing M. Kauffman Stadium (pronounced /'k??fm?n/; formerly Royals Stadium and also known as The K.) is a Major League Baseball stadium located in Kansas City, Missouri, and home to the Kansas City Royals of the American League. Together with Arrowhead Stadium, home of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs, it is a part of the Truman Sports Complex. Since July 2, 1993, the venue has been known as Kauffman Stadium in honor of the Royals' founding owner, Ewing Kauffman.Kauffman Stadium was built specifically for baseball during an era where building multisport "cookie-cutter" stadiums were commonplace. It is often held up along with Dodger Stadium as one of the best examples of modernist stadium design.The stadium is currently 36 years old, making it the sixth-oldest stadium i...
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Arrowhead Stadium - Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City MO
~4.87 miles from Independence city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Independence
Independence Events Center
19100 East Valley View Parkway Independence MO
~5.02 miles from Independence city center
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Ameristar Casino
Kansas City MO
~5.14 miles from Independence city center
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Oceans of Fun
Kansas City MO
~6.38 miles from Independence city center
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Oceans of Fun is a tropically-themed water park that opened on May 31, 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri to celebrate Worlds of Fun's 10th year anniversary. At the time it was opened it was the largest water park in the world. It is owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Co. Oceans of Fun is adjacent to the Worlds of Fun amusement park.
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Worlds of Fun
Kansas City MO
~6.98 miles from Independence city center
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Worlds of Fun features six world-class coasters, one of the largest collections of water attractions in the country, live shows, and much more!Worlds of Fun (WOF) is an amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The park opened in 1973 and was originally built by Lamar Hunt and Jack Steadman (Hunt-Midwest). In 1995 Hunt-Midwest sold Worlds of Fun to Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., who currently owns the park. Worlds of Fun has an attached separate admission water park named Oceans of Fun. In 2010 Worlds of Fun celebrates its 38th season.Worlds of Fun opened on May 26, 1973, at a cost of $322 million. It was situated at the northern edge of a vast industrial complex developed by Hunt in the bluffs above the Missouri River in Clay County, Missouri. Immediately south of the...
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Kansas City Museum
Kansas City MO
~6.99 miles from Independence city center
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Mutual Musicians Foundation
Kansas City MO
~7.86 miles from Independence city center
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Attraction type: Jazz barActivities: NightlifeAddress: 1823 Highland Ave Kansas City, MO 64112Tel: 816 471 5212
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18th & Vine Jazz District (Neighborhood)
Kansas City Kansas City MO
~7.91 miles from Independence city center
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This historical attraction allows visitors to experience one of the birth places of jazz music. Jazz greats such as BB King, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and many others have walked these streets.
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Negro Leagues Museum American Jazz Museum
Kansas City MO
~7.91 miles from Independence city center
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These two unique museums, housed under one roof, are in the historic 18th and Vine Jazz District. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum tells the compelling story of segregated baseball, from the founding of the Negro National League just a few blocks away in 1920, until Jackie Robinson, who played for the Kansas City Monarchs, signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. The Jazz Museum pays tribute to jazz greats ranging from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald and Charlie Parker, with listening stations throughout. Be sure to see the gallery with changing exhibits relating to jazz, baseball, and African-American life, as well as the film in the visitor center highlighting the golden days of the 1930s, when this very district boasted more than 60 jazz clubs and served as the c...
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Kansas City Zoo
6700 Zoo Dr Kansas City MO
~8.56 miles from Independence city center
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200 acre zoo includes African, Australian and Farmland exhibits.Kansas City Zoological Park (Kansas City Zoo) is the 10th largest zoo in the United States. It is located in Swope Park at 6800 Zoo Drive Kansas City, Missouri. The zoo has a Friends Of The Zoo program.The Kansas City Zoo was recently voted one of America's best zoos in 2008.[1] The Kansas City Zoo was ranked number one in the nation for “African Animals and Exhibits,” with the authors, Allen W. Nyhuis and Jon Wassner, praising its 95-acre (380,000 m2) Africa exhibit as representing five nations with "one of the most extensive collections of African animals we’ve ever seen." The Zoo was also ranked among the top 10 in the nation for “Australian Animals and Exhibits” and for “Pachyderms: Elephants, Rhinos, Hippos” In addi...
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Downtown Kansas City (Neighborhood)
Kansas City MO
~8.68 miles from Independence city center
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Sprint Center
Kansas City MO
~8.81 miles from Independence city center
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Sprint Center is a large, multi-use indoor arena in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The building is located at 14th Street and Grand Boulevard, on the east side of the Power & Light District. The arena's naming rights partner is the telecommunications company Sprint, whose headquarters is in nearby Overland Park, Kansas.Sprint Center opened to the public on October 10, 2007, and a concert on October 13, 2007 by Elton John was the first event held at the arena. The arena seats over 19,000 people and has 72 suites. Sprint Center has effectively replaced Kemper Arena, which was built in 1974, just a few miles away in the southern portion of the West Bottoms. Additionally, the College Basketball Experience, which includes the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, is connected to and ...
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Starlite Theatre
Kansas City
~8.89 miles from Independence city center
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Stylized 1950's theatre with live productions, gift shop, and diner.
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Hallmark Visitors Center
Kansas City MO
~8.90 miles from Independence city center
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See everything behind the world's most popular greeting card at the company's factory headquarters.Familiar with Hallmark Visitors Center? Write your own description and share what you know with other travelers.Attraction type: Factory tour, Tourist/visitor centerActivities: Leisure Educationvisitorscenter@hallmark.comAddress: Crown Center Kansas City, MO 64108Tel: 816 274 3613
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Arabia Steamboat Museum
Kansas City MO
~8.93 miles from Independence city center
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Power and Light District (Neighborhood)
1100 Walnut Street Kansas City MO
~8.94 miles from Independence city center
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The Kansas City Power & Light District or Power & Light District is a shopping and entertainment district in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States, developed by the Cordish Company of Baltimore, Maryland and designed by 360 Architecture. The district comprises nine blocks on the south side of the downtown loop. It is located between Baltimore Avenue to the west, Grand Boulevard to the east, 12th Street to the north, and Interstate 670 to the south. The $850 million "mixed-use" district is one of the largest development projects in the Midwestern United States The Power & Light District is one of only a few places in the United States where possession and consumption of open containers of alcoholic beverages are allowed on the street, although they remain prohibited on the street th...
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Crown Center
Kansas City KS
~8.95 miles from Independence city center
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Located in the heart of downtown Kansas City, Crown Center is often called a city within a city. Three levels of great shopping and dining complement two of the city’s most luxurious hotels, exquisite office buildings, a residential community and several entertainment attractions. It all surrounds the worldwide headquarters of Hallmark Cards, Inc. Bring your family and your imagination for an unforgettable visit to Crown Center.
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Belger Art Center
Kansas City MO
~8.97 miles from Independence city center
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The Belger Arts Center (BAC) is a non-profit organization located in Kansas City, Missouri. It houses a fine art collection and also holds exhibitions of various art.The Center stages three exhibitions a year. Since 2000 the BAC has launched exhibitions of ceramics, painting, sculpture, digital photographic projections, black and white photography, and more.In addition to the exhibitions, the BAC houses the John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation collection, which includes more than 1,500 pieces of fine art, mainly from American artists of the late 20th century. Extensive holdings of works by Jasper Johns, William Christenberry, Renee Stout, Robert Stackhouse, Terry Winters, Terry Allen, and William Wiley allow the BAC to loan complete retrospectives of those artists to museums ar...
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Swope Park & Zoo
Kansas City
~9.01 miles from Independence city center
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Swope Park is a 1,769-acre (7.16 km2) city park within the city of Kansas City, Missouri. It is the 29th-largest municipal park in the United States, and the largest park in Kansas City. It is named in honor of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, a philanthropist who donated the land to the city in 1896. In the 1,769 acres (7.16 km2), it hosts Starlight Theatre (a 8,000+ seat outdoor theater, also the temporary home of the annual Jewel Ball), Training Grounds for the Kansas City Wizards and their reserve team affectionately namely Swope Park Rangers, the Kansas City Zoological Park, two golf courses, ten shelter houses and a host of other things, including baseball diamonds, soccer fields, a swimming pool, and a frisbee golf course.Also located in the park is Lakeside Nature Center, which hosts man...
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City Market of Kansas City
Kansas City MO
~9.02 miles from Independence city center
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Over 150 years old, the City Market allows its citizens to purchase goods directly from merchants.
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Union Station
Kansas City KS
~9.08 miles from Independence city center
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Union Station Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri is one of many union stations in the United States.Around the turn of the 20th century, the Kansas City Terminal Railway, a company controlled by the 12 railroads serving Kansas City, decided that a new location was needed for the train depot. The location at the time was prone to flooding by the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. A new location was selected south of the central business district, above and away from the floodplain. The architect chosen to design the building was Jarvis Hunt, a proponent of the City Beautiful movement. The design was a main hall for ticketing, and a perpendicular hall extending out over the tracks for passenger waiting. The Beaux-Arts station opened on October 30, 1914 as the second-largest train station in t...
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Byron Cohen Gallery
2020 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City MO - 816-421-5665
~9.08 miles from Independence city center
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Municipal Auditorium and Music Hall
201 West 13th Street Kansas City MO
~9.12 miles from Independence city center
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Municipal Auditorium is a large, multi-purpose facility in Kansas City, Missouri with three halls: The Arena, Music Hall, and Little Theatre. It opened in 1936 and features art deco architecture and architectural details.Municipal Auditorium was one of the buildings built in 1934 as part of a "Ten Year Plan" championed by various local politicians including Harry S Truman and Thomas Pendergast. Other buildings in the plan included the Kansas City City Hall and the Kansas City branch of the Jackson County Courthouse.It replaced Convention Hall which was directly across the street and was torn down for parking in what is now called the Barney Allis Plaza.The art deco architecture features were a characteristic design by Hoit Price & Barnes which also designed the Kansas City Power and ...
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Liberty Memorial - WWI Museum
Kansas City MO
~9.19 miles from Independence city center
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America's official museum dedicated to World War I, as designated by the United States Congress, opened December 2006. The new subterranean facility greatly expands the previous facilities that are still housed on the main deck of the Liberty Memorial. The National World War I Museum tells the story of the war and related global events from their origins before 1914 through the 1918 Armistice and 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Visitors enter the facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 poppies, each one representing 1,000 war combatant deaths. The museum holds two theaters, exhibitions with period artifacts (including a tank, uniforms, guns, maps, photographs of major forces) in state-of-the-art interactive displays, a 20,000 sq. ft. research center and library, multi-purpose co...
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National World War One Museum
Kansas City MO
~9.19 miles from Independence city center
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America's official museum dedicated to World War I, as designated by the United States Congress, opened December 2006. The new subterranean facility greatly expands the previous facilities that are still housed on the main deck of the Liberty Memorial. The National World War I Museum tells the story of the war and related global events from their origins before 1914 through the 1918 Armistice and 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Visitors enter the facility across a glass bridge above a field of 9,000 poppies, each one representing 1,000 war combatant deaths. The museum holds two theaters, exhibitions with period artifacts (including a tank, uniforms, guns, maps, photographs of major forces) in state-of-the-art interactive displays, a 20,000 sq. ft. research center and library, multi-purpose co...
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Bartle Hall KC Convention Center
Kansas City MO
~9.20 miles from Independence city center
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Bartle Hall Convention Center is a major exposition hall in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. It is named for Harold Roe Bartle, a prominent, two-term mayor of Kansas City in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Independence
Kansas City Convention and Entertainment Facilities
301 W 13th St Kansas City MO - 816-513-5000
~9.28 miles from Independence city center
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