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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...
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.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
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
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
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
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
Cave City, Kentucky
Combo rock and souvenir shop, vortex, mosasaur exhibit.
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.
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, Kentucky
Take a jeep tram tour of a former mine and secret nuclear survival bunker.
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
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.
Answers In Genesis Creation Museum
Petersburg, Kentucky
Man's Reason vs. God's Word -- explained with dinosaurs and immersive multimedia.
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."
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
Covington, Kentucky
Freak oddities collected by the founders of a local history museum are among its most popular relics.
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
Florence, Kentucky
Sleep like a hillbilly, an African villager, or the Abominable Snowman, depending on your mood.
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
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.
Daniel Boone's Grave
Frankfort, Kentucky
Kentucky claims that Daniel Boone and his wife were dug up 25 years after their deaths in Missouri and re-buried here.
Kentucky Military History Museum: Hitler's Plaque
Frankfort, Kentucky
See the plaque that hung over Hitler's jail cell, and a proto-bazooka that was supposed to sink submarines in World War I.
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- Bardstown: Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
- Benham: Kentucky Coal Museum
- Bowling Green: Lost River Cave Boat Tours [tips]
- Bowling Green: National Corvette Museum [tips]
- Bowling Green: Big Red - Bronze Monster Mascot [tips]
- Calvert City: Hillbilly Garden
- Cave City: Wigwam Village Motel No. 2
- Cave City: Dinosaur World [tips]
- Cave City: Big Mike's: Mystery House, Rocks, and Big Mo
- Cave City: Crystal Onyx Cave [tips]
- Clermont: Jim Beam American Stillhouse
- Corbin: Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Corbin: Colonel Sanders Statue
- Covington: Two-Headed Calf, Shrunken Head
- Crestview Hills: Tiny Church - Monte Casino Chapel
- Cynthiana: Walking Dead Mural [tips]
- Elkton: Muffler Man - Bunyan [tips]
- Fairview: Jefferson Davis Monument
- Falmouth: Punkyville [tips]
- Florence: Wildwood Inn Tropical Dome and Theme Suites
- Fort Campbell: Pratt Museum: Atomic Mortar, Hitler's Stick
- Fort Knox: Patton Museum: Death Car
- Fort Mitchell: Vent Haven: Ventriloquist Museum
- Frankfort: Daniel Boone's Grave
- Frankfort: Kentucky Military History Museum: Hitler's Plaque
- Frankfort: Center for Kentucky History: Boone's Skull
- Frankfort: Capital City Museum
- Franklin: Fork in the Road [tips]
- Harrodsburg: Lincoln Marriage Temple
- Hazel: KY-TN State Line Sculpture [tips]
- Highland Heights: Stegowagen-volkssaurus
- Hodgenville: The Lincoln Museum [tips]
- Hopkinsville: King Arthur's Round Table - Literary Park
- Hopkinsville: Edgar Cayce and the Hopkinsville Goblins
- Horse Cave: Hidden River Cave and American Cave Museum
- Lexington: Huge Cocktail (Former Mortar and Pestle) [tips]
- Lexington: Bible Mini-Golf
- Lexington: Cocaine Bear
- Lexington: Transylvania's Moosnick Museum
- Louisville: World's Largest Bat
- Louisville: World's Largest Bat - The Vampire Kind
- Louisville: Colonel Sanders Grave
- Louisville: Louisville Mega Cavern
- Louisville: Waverly Hills Sanatorium - Ghost Tours [tips]
- Louisville: Pose With Wax Colonel Sanders
- Louisville: 30-Foot-Tall Gold Statue of David [tips]
- Louisville: Jesus is My Swingset
- Louisville: Heigold Facade [tips]
- Louisville: Angel Warriors
- Louisville: Cave Hill Cemetery
- Lynch: Portal 31: Dark Ride Mine Tour
- Mammoth Cave: Mammoth Cave
- Manchester: Stone of Witness - Red Bird Petroglyph
- Mayfield: The Wooldridge Monuments
- Munfordville: The Mayor's Stonehenge
- Newport: World Peace Bell [tips]
- Nicholasville: Museum of Physical Security
- Owensboro: Statue of Gabe [tips]
- Petersburg: Answers In Genesis Creation Museum
- Pikeville: Octavia Hatcher: Buried Alive?
- Pikeville: Big Sandy Heritage Museum: Hatfield-McCoy
- Pineville: Chained Rock
- Prestonsburg: World's 2nd Largest Seated Lincoln
- Slade: Natural Bridge: Skylift
- Slade: Kentucky Reptile Zoo: Snake Milking
- Somerset: International Paranormal Museum
- Stanton: Nada Tunnel
- Williamstown: Noah's Ark