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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Oakley, KS
Towering chalk formations rise abruptly from the western Kansas plains and preserve evidence of the ancient inland sea that once covered the region. The formations are on private land opened to visitors, so access is a privilege and poor road conditions can close the route.
Weskan, KS
Kansas's highest natural point is not a mountain but a subtle rise on private ranchland beside the Colorado line. The owners traditionally welcome respectful visitors, who find a sign, register, and whimsical summit markers rather than an alpine peak.
Dodge City, KS
Built from native limestone in the 1880s, the Mueller-Schmidt House survives as one of Dodge City's most substantial early residences. Its preserved rooms offer a quieter, more authentic counterpoint to the town's saloon-and-gunfighter mythology.
Marquette, KS
Wind and water eroded sandstone into oversized mushroom-shaped rocks balanced on narrow stems. The tiny state park is a concentrated collection of geological forms that look deliberately sculpted despite being natural.
Riverton, KS
The 1925 general store has served generations of travelers and remains one of the most authentic operating businesses on Kansas Route 66. Its groceries, deli, old building fabric, and road history give it more substance than a recreated nostalgia stop.
Riverton, KS
This concrete Marsh arch bridge carried old Route 66 over Brush Creek and is the last surviving bridge of its type on the historic highway in Kansas. Its compact scale and distinctive white arches make it an easy roadside architecture stop.
Minneapolis, KS
More than 200 nearly spherical sandstone concretions cluster across a small landscape outside Minneapolis. Some are several meters across, creating a field of giant stone balls unlike most other Kansas geology.
Abilene, KS
A six-foot convex campaign button recreates the iconic 'I Like Ike' slogan at Little Ike Park. The oversized political object turns a 1950s presidential campaign symbol into a modern roadside photo stop.
Cawker City, KS
This community-grown ball is in Cawker City, not Osborne. Farmer Frank Stoeber began rolling discarded sisal twine into a ball on Christmas Eve 1953, and the town later took over the tradition; visitors now find it beneath a roadside shelter and the community continues adding twine during special events.
Abilene, KS
A nearly 20-foot-wide steel belt buckle stands in Eisenhower Park and includes stairs that let visitors pose as if they are wearing it. The sculpture deliberately pushes Abilene's cattle-town identity into modern roadside-superlative territory.
Wilson, KS
A 22-foot decorated kraslice stands in Wilson as a giant tribute to the community's Czech heritage. The colorful egg combines immigrant tradition with the oversized-object logic of a classic roadside attraction.
Goodland, KS
Goodland’s giant easel is part of artist Cameron Cross’s international Van Gogh Project and carries a 24-by-32-foot reproduction of Van Gogh’s “Three Sunflowers in a Vase.” It was installed in Pioneer Park on June 19, 2001 and remains a free roadside artwork visible from Business Highway 24.
Lucas, KS
A giant roadside travel plate welcomes visitors on the edge of Lucas and celebrates the souvenir plates once collected on cross-country trips. Its exaggerated scale fits the town's larger tradition of deliberately strange public art.
