Places hopemch Wants to Go

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

Moonbows over Kentucky.