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