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A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

This museum of miniature displays provides a journey through early American history.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

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

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

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

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

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

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

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

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.