If you think you know all of Indiana’s roadside attractions, the KokoMantis in Kokomo is here to prove you wrong.
This 17-foot praying mantis sculpture has been lurking in downtown Kokomo, and somehow it manages to be both completely obvious and surprisingly under-the-radar at the same time.
The thing about the KokoMantis is that it doesn’t announce itself with billboards or tourist trap fanfare.
It just exists, magnificently and unapologetically, in the heart of downtown like it’s the most natural thing in the world for a city to have a giant insect as its centerpiece…