Entry No. 45 — the Wichita file — filed under: roadside-oddity
World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest Things
“a tiny museum about monuments to excess”
Artist Erika Nelson's storefront crammed with hand-built miniature replicas of America's biggest roadside attractions — a tiny museum about monuments to excess, in Kansas's self-declared grassroots-art capital.
The move: Hunt through the collection together to find which 'world's largest things' have been shrunk down, then pick one full-size original to road-trip to next.
📍 Before you go Lucas is a genuine day trip — roughly two and a half hours northwest of Wichita, and the right approach is I-70 exit 206, then K-232 north across the Wilson Lake dam on the Post Rock Scenic Byway. The collection lives in a storefront called the Roadside Sideshow Expo on the east side of Main Street just south of 2nd; the building is unheated, so it runs seasonally (roughly April through October), and Erika keeps an artist's schedule — message the World's Largest Things Facebook page before making the drive. Street parking is easy in a town of about 400, and everything is walkable. Pair it with the rest of the grassroots-art pilgrimage a few blocks over: S.P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden, the Grassroots Art Center, and Bowl Plaza, the town's mosaic-encrusted public-toilet monument.
- 📍 Lucas, Kansas
- 💸 $
- ⚡ Up for anything
- 🌗 Indoors
Where: 214 South Main St, Lucas, KS 67648
Hours: Added 2026-06-09 — confirm current hours before you go.
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last checked: 2026-06-09