Kentucky
Find Kentucky travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Trunkations
Elite Cave Bunker Opens To All
Louisville - Kentucky has many big holes in the ground that are open to the public. But as far as we know, no subterranean attraction in Kentucky or elsewhere has had its entrance in the middle of a metropolitan warehouse park — until now. Full story
Featured Attractions
Answers In Genesis Creation Museum
Petersburg, Kentucky
Man's Reason vs. God's Word -- explained with dinosaurs and immersive multimedia.
Vent Haven Museum
Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
Do ventriloquist dummies scare you? See hundreds of them at this museum devoted to the art of and history of ventriloquism.
Wildwood Inn Tropical Dome & Theme Suites
Florence, Kentucky
Sleep like a hillbilly, an African villager, or the Abominable Snowman, depending on your mood.
Colonel Sanders
Louisville, Kentucky
Fortunately for us, the Great Man on the Bucket didn't take his "11 secret herbs and spices" recipe to his grave...
World's Largest Bat
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville Slugger Museum, World's Largest Baseball Bat, World's Largest Glove.
Wigwam Village Motel
Cave City, Kentucky
"Sleep in a Wigwam" at a classic teepee-themed motel near Mammoth Cave.
Lightning Portrait of Startled Bather
Russellville, Kentucky
Lightning is said to have etched a bathing woman's face into a window overlooking a cemetery.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Bardstown: Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
- Bardstown: World's Largest Crucifix [MegaMessiahs]
- Big Bone Lick State Park: And sister destination - Big Beaver Lick [tips]
- Cave City: America's Best Dead Cave Explorer
- Cave City: Big Mike's Mystery House [tips] Mystery Spot
- Cave City: Dinosaur World [tips]
- Cave City: Gun Town Mountain [tips]
- Cave City: Mammoth Cave Wax Museum
- Cave City: Wigwam Village Motel [tips]
- Clermont: Jim Beam Distillery [Hard and Soft Drinks]
- Corbin: First KFC
- Covington: Largest Stained Glass Window [tips]
- Covington: Two-Headed Calf and Shrunken Head
- Elizabethtown: Schmidt's Coca-Cola Museum
- Fairview: Jefferson Davis Obelisk [tips]
- Florence: Wildwood Tropical Dome and Theme Motel
- Fort Mitchell: Venthaven Ventriloquist Dummy Museum
- Frankfort: Daniel Boone's Grave
- Georgetown: Pete the Talking Crow
- Hazard: Mother Goose Market [tips]
- Hopkinsville: Grave of Psychic Edgar Cayce
- Hopkinsville: Literary Park, King Arthur's Round Table
- Hopkinsville: Night Riders
- Horse Cave: American Cave Museum
- Lexington: Bible-themed Miniature Golf Course [tips]
- Lexington: Mortar and Pestle-shaped Pharmacy [tips]
- Lexington: Man o' War, race horse
- Louisville: Big Coffee Pot [tips]
- Louisville: Birthplace of the Cheeseburger [tips]
- Louisville: Col. Sanders Grave
- Louisville: Louisville Slugger Museum and World's Largest Baseball Bat
- Louisville: World's Largest Bottle of Booze [tips]
- Marion: World's Largest Collection of Fluorite [tips]
- Mayfield: Wooldridge Monuments
- Newport: Purple People Bridge
- Petersburg: Answers In Genesis Creation Museum
- Pineville: Boulders Chained Above Town [tips]
- Russellville: Lightning Portrait of Startled Bather
- Trappist: Bourbon Fudge Monks [tips]
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Versailles: Castle [tips]
