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  • Vent Haven: Ventriloquist Museum

    Vent Haven: Ventriloquist Museum

    Fort Mitchell, Kentucky

    Do ventriloquist dummies scare you? See hundreds of them at this museum devoted to the art and history of ventriloquism.

  • Noah's Ark

    Noah's Ark

    Williamstown, Kentucky

    Enormous wooden boat of biblical proportions. Three decks and dozens of dummy animals (including small dinosaurs). Signs and exhibits explain it all.

  • Hillbilly Garden

    Hillbilly Garden

    Calvert City, Kentucky

    Keith Holt's folk art and gags, and a mini-world with 3,000 toys and six running trains.

  • Wigwam Village Motel No. 2

    Wigwam Village Motel No. 2

    Cave City, Kentucky

    "Sleep in a Wigwam" at a classic tee-pee-themed motel near Mammoth Cave, built in 1937.

  • Big Mike's: Mystery House, Rocks, and Big Mo

    Big Mike's: Mystery House, Rocks, and Big Mo

    Cave City, Kentucky

    Combo rock and souvenir shop, vortex, mosasaur exhibit.

  • Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken

    Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken

    Corbin, Kentucky

    A working KFC inside Col. Sanders' first restaurant has a mini-museum and the kitchen where KFC was first cooked.

  • Cocaine Bear

    Cocaine Bear

    Lexington, Kentucky

    Famous bear that died after eating $15 million in cocaine dropped from a plane by a drug smuggler, who also died.

  • Transylvania's Moosnick Museum

    Transylvania's Moosnick Museum

    Lexington, Kentucky

    Collection of weird 19th century medical curiosities, including a two-headed baby, a giant hairball, and meat that fell from the sky in 1876.

  • Louisville Mega Cavern

    Louisville Mega Cavern

    Louisville, Kentucky

    Take a jeep tram tour of a former mine and secret nuclear survival bunker.

  • Cave Hill Cemetery

    Cave Hill Cemetery

    Louisville, Kentucky

    A concourse of afterlife expression, Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery invites appreciative strolls among offbeat monuments to the dead.

  • Portal 31: Dark Ride Mine Tour

    Portal 31: Dark Ride Mine Tour

    Lynch, Kentucky

    A train ride through a real coal mine, with sound and light effects, animatronic miners, and a robot mule. Tourists ride rail cars, often in pitch blackness.

  • Creation Museum

    Creation Museum

    Petersburg, Kentucky

    Man's Reason vs. God's Word -- explained with dinosaurs and immersive multimedia.

  • Kentucky Reptile Zoo: Snake Milking

    Kentucky Reptile Zoo: Snake Milking

    Slade, Kentucky

    The art of bare-handed snake milking is still practiced. Claims to have "One of the Largest Collections of Venomous Snakes in the World."

  • International Paranormal Museum

    International Paranormal Museum

    Somerset, Kentucky

    Small-but-packed museum devoted to all thing paranormal: monsters, space aliens, a showroom dummy that moves on its own...

  • Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

    Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History

    Bardstown, Kentucky

    Trace the storied past of whiskey making, see George Washington's still and Abe Lincoln's liquor license.

  • Two-Headed Calf, Shrunken Head

    Two-Headed Calf, Shrunken Head

    Covington, Kentucky

    Freak oddities collected by the founders of a local history museum are among its most popular relics.

  • Jefferson Davis Monument

    Jefferson Davis Monument

    Fairview, Kentucky

    A surprising 351-foot-tall obelisk, the tallest unreinforced concrete structure in the world, honors the only President of the Confederate States of America.

  • Wildwood Inn Tropical Dome and Theme Suites

    Wildwood Inn Tropical Dome and Theme Suites

    Florence, Kentucky

    Sleep like a hillbilly, an African villager, or the Abominable Snowman, depending on your mood.

  • Pratt Museum: Atomic Mortar, Hitler's Stick

    Pratt Museum: Atomic Mortar, Hitler's Stick

    Fort Campbell, Kentucky

    Many worthy items in this military museum, including Hitler's walking stick and an atomic mortar -- one of the dumbest weapons ever invented.

  • Patton Museum: Death Car

    Patton Museum: Death Car

    Fort Knox, Kentucky

    The museum will satisfy Patton fans, with a collection of his personal items, including his death car and the collar worn by his dog.

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