Places joparkman Wants to Go

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

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

Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.

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

This unfinished tribute to a hometown hero and early baseball great is now an abandoned roadside attraction.

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.

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

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.

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

This 100-foot tall bluff located in the western plains of Kansas overlooks a massive reservoir.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

Once an ancient sea, this landscape of rocky ravines is filled with the fossils of ancient marine life.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

The quirky collection includes treasures like Elvis' underwear, Bob Barker's toothbrush, and hundreds of sock monkeys.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.