Places backroadsphotog Wants to Go

This small, independent museum documents the unique culture of Deaf people in the United States.

This historic Ellinwood hotel is also home to underground tunnels that were a popular haunt during Prohibition.

The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

A steeple that now houses a small church.

This rural water utility building houses a tribute to one of the greatest stars of the silent film era.

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

This museum houses artifacts from American adventurers and filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson.

This century-old painting of a portly 10-foot-tall man spent years hidden behind plaster.

This historic early-20th-century building still boasts some of its original features.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

One of the stops along the fateful journey of the Donner Party.

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

This historic church is named for abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and the ruse to arm his fellow abolitionists.

The oldest house in Lindsborg, Kansas, includes some fascinating inscriptions.

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.