This story was originally published by Condé Nast Traveler . This coming June , travelers from around the world will descend on Kansas City for the 2026 World Cup , with local matches being played at the 76,416-seat Arrowhead Stadium—the same place where American football fans usually cheer on the Kansas City Chiefs. The city is no stranger to international attention and the heavy flow of traffic that comes with it. KC’s historic love for liquor and jazz and its tree-lined City Beautiful boulevards and parks once led Prohibition-era journalists to proclaim it the Paris of the Plains. The American Jazz Museum is flanked by adjoining club and listening room The Blue Room. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images Tourists still come here for jazz, blues, and booze. But Kansas City might be better known these days for the cheers bleeding out of its riverfront soccer stadium—the first in the country purpose-built for a women’s professional soccer team—or the wood smoke coiling up from hundreds of barbecue pits.…