Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Wichita
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Wichita? These 10 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…
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Fisch Haus
A multi-disciplinary artist cooperative founded in 1990, run out of a three-story warehouse since 1993 with s…
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Chainlink Gallery Place
An experimental, artist-run sandbox built on a once-vacant downtown lot and facilitated by Harvester Arts. Fr…
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Stonehenge Jr. (Solar Calendar)
Tucked into the northwest corner of Central Riverside Park, this circle of limestone megaliths, colored glass…
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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…
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Coronado Heights Castle
A 1936 WPA-built native-stone castle with turrets and a fireplace crowns a 300-foot sandstone promontory wher…
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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…
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Psychedelic Beatles Mural
A massive, vivid psychedelic-era Beatles mural covers the exterior wall of a furniture warehouse in downtown…
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Wild Dala Horse Herd
Since 2000, Lindsborg has maintained a publicly displayed herd of 30+ life-size fiberglass Dala horses — each…
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Caldwell Giant Ornate Box Turtle Sculptures
Caldwell's "Turtle Trail" is a self-guided walk past 12 individually painted, oversized fiberglass ornate box…