Kentucky Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Kentucky. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Cave City | Lexington | Louisville
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Ashland: Giant Statues of Vulcan and Venus - Barbourville: Big Chicken
- Bardstown: Jesse James Pane of Glass
- Bardstown: Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
- Bardstown: World's Largest Crucifix
- Bardwell: Tiny Church
- Baxter: Coal Monument
- Beaver Dam: Last Supper in Concrete
- Benham: Kentucky Coal Museum
- Benton: B-29 Bomber Crashed Here
- Benton: Krispy Kreme Founder's Birthplace
- Berea: Big Black Bull
- Berea: Unsettling Hand Sculptures
- Blackberry: Hatfield-McCoy Monument
- Blackberry: Site of First Hatfield-McCoy Killing
- Bloomfield: Deere John Project
- Bonnieville: Molly the Cow: Pasture Giant
- Bowling Green: 1921 Standard Oil Gas Station
- Bowling Green: Aviation Heritage Park
- Bowling Green: Big Red - Bronze Monster Mascot
- Bowling Green: Car Parts Pumping Iron
- Bowling Green: Duncan Hines was a Real Man
- Bowling Green: Giant American Flag Wall
- Bowling Green: Historic Rail Park and Train Museum
- Bowling Green: Historical Marker: Home and Office of Duncan Hines
- Bowling Green: Lost River Cave Boat Tours
- Bowling Green: National Corvette Museum
- Bowling Green: Restaurant Church
- Bowling Green: White Squirrels of Bowling Green
- Brandenburg: Jailhouse Pizza
- Burkesville: Civil War Grave in a Parking Lot
- Burlington: Mary Draper Ingles, Indian Survivor
- Burnwell: Hatfield-McCoy Love Baby Grave
- Calvert City: Hillbilly Garden
- Calvert City: Vietnam Veterans Museum
- Carlisle: Jail Dungeon
- Carrollton: 1988 School Bus Disaster
- Cave City: Big Mike's: Mystery House, Rocks, and Big Mo
- Cave City: Crystal Onyx Cave
- Cave City: Dinosaur World
- Cave City: Floyd Collins Grave
- Cave City: Mammoth Cave Wildlife Museum
- Cave City: The Dive
- Cave City: Trail to Sand Cave, Where Floyd Collins Died
- Cave City: Treasure Trove Park
- Cave City: Wigwam Village Motel No. 2
- Central City: Everly Brothers Monument
- Central City: Jesus Lighthouse
- Clermont: Jim Beam American Stillhouse
- Conkling: Lincoln Carved by Mysterious Hobo
- Corbin: Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Corbin: Colonel Sanders Statue
- Covington: Artist Holds Painting Of Wife
- Covington: Big Bourbon Bottle
- Covington: Flying Saucer House - Futuro
- Covington: Gravity Hill
- Covington: Notre Dame Cathedral Replica, Big Stained Glass Window
- Covington: Replica of Jesus's Tomb
- Covington: Two-Headed Calf, Shrunken Head
- Crestview Hills: Tiny Church - Monte Casino Chapel
- Cynthiana: Walking Dead Mural
- Danville: Giant Black Angus Steer
- Danville: Great American Dollhouse Museum
- Drakesboro: Grave of Merle "Sixteen Tons" Travis
- Dunmor: 14-Foot-Tall Big Twigs
- Elizabethtown: Approximate Cannonball in Building
- Elizabethtown: Big Basketballs
- Elizabethtown: Lincoln Wedding Memorial Parking Space
- Elizabethtown: Shriner Statue
- Elkton: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Fairview: Jefferson Davis Monument
- Fairview: Zero Milestone of the Jeff Davis Highway
- Falmouth: Punkyville
- Florence: Florence Y'all Water Tower
- 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: Bourbon Traveler Signpost
- Frankfort: Capital City Museum
- Frankfort: Center for Kentucky History: Boone's Skull
- Frankfort: Daniel Boone's Grave
- Frankfort: Floral Clock
- Frankfort: Goebel Fell Here
- Frankfort: Kentucky Military History Museum: Hitler's Plaque
- Frankfort: Vietnam War Sundial
- Franklin: Fork in the Road
- Franklin: Large Bull
- Franklin: Marker: Death by UFO?
- Franklin: Spray Paint Road
- Franklin: World's Largest Butter Knife, Other Sculptures
- Georgetown: Pete, Robot Talking Crow
- Goshen: Big Metal Abacus
- Greenup: War Memorial Tank, Helicopter, Fighter Jet
- Greenville: 9/11 Memorial: Collapsing Tower
- Greenville: Deadly War of 1812 Sharpshooter
- Griderville: Lighthouse/Windmill Building
- Guthrie: Big Cow Statue
- Guthrie: Pink Elephant
- Hardy: Forbidden McCoy Cemetery
- Hardy: McCoy Well and Homeplace
- Harrodsburg: Ice Cream Cone on a Pole
- Harrodsburg: Lincoln Marriage Temple
- Hartford: Fort Hartford Replica
- Hartford: Wacky Town Welcome Sign
- Hazard: Mother Goose Inn
- Hazel: KY-TN State Line Sculpture
- Henderson: Big Cartoon Wolf Statue
- Henderson: Founder of Mother's Day
- Hickman: Only Way Between Kentucky and Missouri
- Highland Heights: Stegowagen-volkssaurus
- Hodgenville: Grave of Lincoln's Playmate
- Hodgenville: Lincoln Birthplace, But Not His Cabin
- Hodgenville: The Lincoln Museum
- Hodgenville: Two Lincolns: Boy and Man
- Hopkinsville: Big Wheat Shock
- Hopkinsville: Edgar Cayce and the Hopkinsville Goblins
- Hopkinsville: Fort Campbell Air Crash Memorial
- Hopkinsville: Grave of Edgar Cayce, Famous Prophet
- Hopkinsville: King Arthur's Round Table - Literary Park
- Hopkinsville: Pink Elephant
- Horse Cave: Hidden River Cave and American Cave Museum
- Horse Cave: Kangaroo Zoo and Cave
- Horse Cave: Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument
- Kelly: Site of 1955 Alien Attack
- La Grange: Log Cabin Atop a Silo
- La Grange: Senior Biker: Road Warrior
- LaGrange: LaGrange Ghost Tour: Jennie the Typhoid Girl
- LaGrange: Share the Street with a Train
- Lancaster: Anti-Aircraft Guns Elementary School
- Leitchfield: Ten Commandments Mural
- Lexington: Bible Mini-Golf
- Lexington: Big Bronze Wildcat
- Lexington: Buried Firehouse: The Cave
- Lexington: Cocaine Bear
- Lexington: Dixie Cup Water Tower
- Lexington: Fountain of Unclad Youth
- Lexington: Giant Abraham Lincoln Mural
- Lexington: Grave of Jim Varney: Ernest P. Worrell
- Lexington: Horse Cemetery
- Lexington: Horses, Riders, Jumping, Walls
- Lexington: Huge Cocktail (Former Mortar and Pestle)
- Lexington: Kissing Streetlights
- Lexington: Man O' War's Grave
- Lexington: Secretariat Statue
- Lexington: Talking Tree in Shoe Store
- Lexington: Transylvania's Moosnick Museum
- Lexington: Zero Milestone Camel
- Liberty: Hatfield McCoy Country Museum
- Liberty: Liberty Bell Replica
- Livermore: Herbie Halved
- London: Outdoor Millstones Collection
- London: World Chicken Festival
- Long Run: Murder Spot and Grave of Lincoln's Grandpa
- Loretto: Baseball Nun and Whiskey Mural
- Loretto: Maker's Mark Distillery Tour: Dip Your Own Bottle
- Louisa: Mini Lady Liberty
- Louisville: 30-Foot-Tall Gold Statue of David
- Louisville: Angel Warriors
- Louisville: Barney Bright Bares All
- Louisville: Barrel-Shaped Ice Cream Stand
- Louisville: Basketball Man
- Louisville: Birthplace of the Cheeseburger
- Louisville: Cave Hill Cemetery
- Louisville: Cemetery in a Zoo
- Louisville: Colonel Sanders Grave
- Louisville: Finn's Flock: Folk Art
- Louisville: Five-Story Tall Whisky Bottle, Ghostly Holograms
- Louisville: Flower Woman
- Louisville: Geronimo's Bow and Custer's Pistol
- Louisville: Golf Course Dinosaur
- Louisville: Grave of the Frito-Lay Magician
- Louisville: Hand Out Grave
- Louisville: Handprints of Famous Jockeys
- Louisville: Hands of the Funeral Family
- Louisville: Heigold Facade
- Louisville: Hot Donuts Sign
- Louisville: Hunter S. Thompson Mural
- Louisville: Jack the Loyal Dog
- Louisville: Jesus is My Swingset
- Louisville: Kentucky Rushmore Mural
- Louisville: Large Eyeglasses
- Louisville: Large Troll
- Louisville: Largest Clasping Stone Hands
- Louisville: Louisville Mega Cavern
- Louisville: Louisville Slugger Walk of Fame
- Louisville: McAlpine Locks
- Louisville: Muhammad Ali Boyhood Home
- Louisville: Muhammad Ali Center
- Louisville: Muhammad Ali's Grave
- Louisville: Muhammed Ali's Stolen Bicycle
- Louisville: Pope Lick Monster
- Louisville: Pose With Wax Colonel Sanders
- Louisville: Shriner Statue - Silent Messenger
- Louisville: Skulls and Roses Mural
- Louisville: Tattoo Charlie's Tattoo Museum
- Louisville: The Peaslee Sphinx
- Louisville: Triceratops from NY World's Fair
- Louisville: Waterworks Temple
- Louisville: Waverly Hills Sanatorium - Ghost Tours
- Louisville: Wig Shop District
- Louisville: World's (Former) Largest Horseshoe
- Louisville: World's Largest Bat
- Louisville: World's Largest Bat - The Vampire Kind
- Louisville: World's Largest Bottle of Booze
- Lynch: Black Coal Miner Memorial
- Lynch: Portal 31: Dark Ride Mine Tour
- Maceo: Historical Marker: Uncle Tom Lived Here
- Mammoth Cave: Itty-Bitty River Ferry
- Mammoth Cave: Mammoth Cave
- Manchester: Stone of Witness - Red Bird Petroglyph
- Marion: World's Largest Collection of Fluorite
- Mayfield: The Wooldridge Monuments
- McCarr: Feudin' Pig and Stabbing Cabin
- McCarr: Hatfield-McCoy Park
- McCarr: PawPaw Murder Bush Marker
- Middlesboro: Coal House, Coal Museum
- Monkey's Eyebrow: Monkey's Eyebrow
- Monticello: Tiny Church, Tiny Cemetery
- Morehead: Kentucky Folk Art Center
- Morganfield: Camp Breckinridge: German POW Murals
- Mortons Gap: Muffler Man - Restored Bunyan
- Mount Washington: Big Tire
- Mt Vernon: Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Mt. Vernon: Banjo Toting Old Joe Clark
- Munfordville: The Mayor's Stonehenge
- Munfordville: World BBQ Destination Wall
- Murray: Grave of Inventor of Radio
- Murray: Radio Invented Here, Maybe
- Newport: Purple People Bridge
- Newport: World Peace Bell
- Nicholasville: Museum of Physical Security
- Olive Hill: DeHart's Bible and Tire
- Owensboro: Big Muffler on Pole
- Owensboro: Burgoo Pot - BBQ Kettle
- Owensboro: Nicky Hayden, MotoGP World Champion
- Owensboro: Statue of Gabe
- Owensboro: The Thinker
- Owensboro: World's Largest Sassafras Tree
- Paducah: Atomic City Mural
- Paducah: Giant Needle and Thread
- Paducah: Grave of Speedy the Mortuary Mummy
- Paducah: Grave of a Building
- Paducah: Horse and Dog Water Fountain
- Paducah: Mushroom Man with Pizza and Beer
- Paducah: Replica of Monticello
- Paducah: Teepee Liquor Store
- Paducah: Time Paradox Lewis and Clark Scene
- Paducah: Wacinton: Carved Giant Indian Head
- Paint Lick: Marker: Uncle Tom's Cabin Site
- Paris: 20-Foot-Tall Eiffel Tower
- Park City: Ruins of Bell's Tavern
- Parkers Lake: Natural Arch
- Petersburg: Creation Museum
- Pikeville: Big Sandy Heritage Museum: Hatfield-McCoy
- Pikeville: Feudists On Trial (Hanging Site)
- Pikeville: Hatfield-McCoy Feud Cemetery
- Pikeville: Octavia Hatcher: Buried Alive?
- Pikeville: Pikeville Cut Overlook
- Pineville: Chained Rock
- Pineville: Kentucky K-9 Memorial
- Prestonsburg: Bike-Thru School Bus
- Prestonsburg: World's 2nd Largest Seated Lincoln
- Rabbit Hash: Rabbit Hash General Store
- Radcliff: Memorial to America's Worst Drunk Driving Accident
- Radcliff: World's Largest Pocketknife
- Richmond: Ghostly Image in a Window
- River: Grave of Jenny Wiley - She Escaped the Indians
- Rosine: Bill Monroe Birthplace
- Rosine: Bill Monroe Museum
- Rosine: Grave of the Father of Bluegrass
- Russellville: Extruded Heads of 1930s Sports Stars
- Russellville: Lightning Portrait of Startled Lady Bather
- Samuels: Big Rooster at Rooster Run
- Sawyer: Tiny Post Office
- Scottsville: Fabulous Paradise Point
- Scottsville: Shopping Center Tomb of Miss Dynamite
- Shelbyville: Claudia Sanders Dinner House
- Shepherdsville: Giant Trolls
- Shepherdsville: Midget Mountain - Gospel Campground
- Shepherdsville: World's Longest Go-Kart Track
- Simpsonville: Horrible Massacre
- Simpsonville: World's Largest Roll of Sausage
- Slade: Kentucky Reptile Zoo: Snake Milking
- Slade: Natural Bridge: Skylift
- Slade: Wild Things of Kentucky: Goats on the Roof
- Somerset: International Paranormal Museum
- Springfield: Sad Lincoln: Out of Wedlock?
- Springfield: The Donkey Tree
- Stanton: Nada Tunnel
- Trappist: Bourbon Fudge Monks
- Union: Big Bone Lick State Park
- Versailles: Nostalgia Station Toy Museum
- Versailles: The Kentucky Castle
- Wellington: Bait and Tackle Bull
- West Point: M60 A1 Army Tank
- West Point: Machine Gun Shoot
- Wickliffe: Giant Cross
- Williamsburg: Moonbow at Cumberland Falls
- Williamstown: Metal Tepee
- Williamstown: Noah's Ark
- Wilmore: Cross-Topped Water Tower
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Bardstown: World's Largest Bourbon Barrel
- Blackey: C. B. Caudill Old Timey Store
- Bowling Green: World's Largest Underpants
- Cave City: Floyd Collins Museum
- Cave City: Giant Knight Statue
- Cave City: Golgotha Bible Mini Golf
- Cave City: Guntown Mountain
- Cave City: Mammoth Cave Wax Museum
- Cave City: Wondering Woods and Tranquil Valley Village
- Corbin: Chainsaw Colonel Sanders
- Corbin: Tired Tire Man
- Elizabethtown: Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia
- Franklin: Big Indian Statue
- Lexington: Kentucky Water Fuel Museum
- Lexington: One-Day President Birthplace
- Lexington: Parkette Drive-In Restaurant
- Louisville: Big Coffee Pot
- Louisville: Birthplace of "Happy Birthday to You"
- Louisville: Colonel Sanders Museum
- Louisville: Jerry's Junk
- Louisville: Large Bunny Statue
- Louisville: Louisville Derby Clock: Jefferson Races, Taylor Cheers
- Louisville: Santa's Rocket Sleigh
- Louisville: Two Big Fish
- Louisville: WHY Lou Two Store
- Marion: Giant Tire Rim Woman
- Monticello: Muffler Man
- Murray: Shoe Tree
- Owensboro: Mr. Top Hat
- Owensboro: Superman Statue
- Sardis: Tiny Post Office
- Somerset: Muffler Man
- Somerset: Town Spring in a Parking Lot
- Union: Town Name Sugartit
- Williamsburg: Tombstone Junction
