29The Inn Wearing Wallpaper Outside

At the quiet end of the stroll, a boutique inn two blocks off the Silos wrapped its street wall in blush pink and trailing botanicals — the kind of hand-painted pattern you'd expect inside a Parisian stairwell, except it's outside, on Clay Avenue, being lovely at pickup trucks. No artist has claimed it; no plaque explains it. The inn just decided its wall should be beautiful from the sidewalk, for people who will never book a room.

That's a small radical act, and it's the whole idea of this trail in miniature: art that faces out. The eight-suite inn and its cottages fill up with Silos pilgrims — but the wall works for free, for everyone, every day.