Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Wichita

Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Wichita? These 17 are the genuinely strange ones — The Wichita Troll, Fisch Haus, Chainlink Gallery Place and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Wichita they'd never find on their own.

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The Wichita Troll A 7-foot, 200-pound bronze troll with greenish skin, big ears, wood-plank shoes and a patchwork outfit crouch… Riverside (Arkansas River east bank, near Veterans Memorial Park)
Fisch Haus A multi-disciplinary artist cooperative founded in 1990, run out of a three-story warehouse since 1993 with s… Commerce Street Arts District (Old Town / downtown)
Chainlink Gallery Place An experimental, artist-run sandbox built on a once-vacant downtown lot and facilitated by Harvester Arts. Fr… Downtown Wichita (Douglas Ave)
Stonehenge Jr. (Solar Calendar) Tucked into the northwest corner of Central Riverside Park, this circle of limestone megaliths, colored glass… Riverside
Giant's Footprint at Oak Park Inside Oak Park's wooded disc-golf course along the Little Arkansas River, a lily pond is shaped exactly like… Riverside
Coronado Heights Castle A 1936 WPA-built native-stone castle with turrets and a fireplace crowns a 300-foot sandstone promontory wher… Lindsborg
World's Tallest Mennonite (Mennonite Settler Statue) A 17-foot native Kansas limestone WPA statue from 1942, nicknamed the "World's Tallest Mennonite" by Roadside… Newton
Psychedelic Beatles Mural A massive, vivid psychedelic-era Beatles mural covers the exterior wall of a furniture warehouse in downtown… Newton
Wild Dala Horse Herd Since 2000, Lindsborg has maintained a publicly displayed herd of 30+ life-size fiberglass Dala horses — each… Lindsborg
Caldwell Giant Ornate Box Turtle Sculptures Caldwell's "Turtle Trail" is a self-guided walk past 12 individually painted, oversized fiberglass ornate box… Caldwell
WuShock: Fighting-Mad Wheat Statue Standing eight feet tall outside the Steve Clark YMCA on Wichita State's campus, WuShock is a bronze bundle o… West Wichita (WSU Campus)
The Celestial Mechanic (buried spaceman sculpture, WSU campus) Buried in a Kansas pasture for years to rust convincingly, then installed half-excavated under a glass dome o… Wichita
Muffler Man at Brown's Tire & Custom Wheel Center Standing outside a family-owned tire shop on S. Broadway since sometime in the fiberglass-giant era, this vin… South Wichita
Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park Kansas's largest exposed Niobrara chalk badlands — colorful spires and miniature canyons rising out of flat p… Scott County (near Scott City)
Gallery Alley A formerly overlooked downtown alley reimagined with Envision into five permanent intersensory sculptures by… Downtown Wichita (Douglas Avenue Arts District)
Gyp Hills Wildlife Area (Gypsum Hills) A remote pocket of red-earth gypsum hills, mesas, and hidden canyons in south-central Kansas — sculptural, pa… Barber County (near Medicine Lodge)
Keeper of the Plains Ring of Fire At the confluence of the Big and Little Arkansas rivers, a 44-foot Cor-Ten steel statue stands on a stone pro… Downtown / Riverfront