Kansas City, Missouri Photo Gallery

Plaque at the piano-shaped plaza at the intersection of 12th Street and Vine in Kansas City, Missouri. An area famous for its jazz clubs in the 1920s and 1930s, it was immortalized in the song Kansas City, which features the refrain, "I'm goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come..."  

View of Union Station and Penn Valley Park from the top of the 217-foot tower at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City.  

Shown left, two members of the Dennis Winslett Quartet—that's Dennis on the sax—jammin' at The Blue Room. Pictured right, a member of the Gates family shows off the barbecue sauce that has made the Gates Bar-B-Q restaurant a Kansas City favorite since 1946.  

A high-rise cityscape shows the historic Marriott Muehlebach Hotel and the all-glass Wyandotte Plaza on opposite corners of 12th Street and Wyandotte.  

Sometimes referred to as the City of Fountains, Kansas City is home to more than 200 of them. The J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain in the Plaza District with its four equestrian statues is the best known and most photographed.  

You will see plenty of public art in downtown Kansas City, such as this oversized decorative pot that sits in front of the Kansas City Convention Center's Grand Ballroom.  

City Market is the largest farmer's market in the region. Open Saturday and Sunday year-round, more than 140 vendor stalls sell bedding plants, cut flowers, fruits, vegetables, herbs, baked goods, and locally made crafts.  

This couple are sitting next to one of the sphinx sculptures at the Liberty Memorial in Penn Valley Park, Kansas City.  

A detail of the George Washington Memorial, a 5.5-ton bronze replica of a statue by Henry Merwin Shrady. Showing Washington astride a horse at Valley Forge, it sits in Washington Square Park across from Kansas City's Union Station.  

A bed of tulips bloom in front of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Surrounded by the 17-acre Kansas City Sculpture Park, a Claes Oldenburg shuttlecock and a sculpture by Henry Moore stand in front of the building.  

There are many murals in the downtown area of Kansas City, including this multi-building example around the corner from the historic Mainstreet theater, which celebrates jazz and jazz legends.