It's a place of history, politics, and the wacky world of casinos. In short, Topeka has become almost anybody's kind of town. Topeka is just a good medium-sized place to visit.
History is first and foremost the city's main attraction.
Even the name suggests an ancient heritage. The city's roots stretch back to the state's territorial period, when some of the town's founders helped lead abolitionist efforts and laid the groundwork for the state to join the Union. He was friends with abolitionist John Brown, and helped write the state's constitution and fund Washburn College. Wichita is more of the cowtown period. Whereas we in Topeka have the territorial history and the struggle of when Kansas was deciding whether it would be a free or slave state.