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This downtown design hotel is marked by twisted sidewalk lampposts – hand-blown in Venice – outside its entrance. A Louisville transplant that's now in several states, it's more like a museum you can sleep in, with four contemporary art galleries throughout the hotel (as well as permanent local art on each floor).
The 88 modern rooms are a bit less edgy, but feature colorful, clean-lined furniture, mostly king beds and wonderful Lexington views. The 21c is easily the city's hippest hotel.
17.68 MILES
Restored to its 1800s glory, Woodford is perhaps the prettiest distillery in Kentucky. The company still uses old-fashioned copper pots to triple distill…
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
20.71 MILES
This area was home to a community of the Shaker religious sect until the early 1900s. Tour dozens of impeccably restored buildings, set amid buttercup…
Lexington Art League at Loudoun House
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Art and architecture buffs won't want to miss this edgy, contemporary visual arts gallery housed in a freestanding American Gothic Revival mansion in the…
19.49 MILES
Castle & Key looks like something out of a fairy tale. Colonel EH Taylor built it as a distillery in 1887, complete with a turreted stone castle, lush…
23.46 MILES
Not only is it the nation's oldest continuously operating distillery, in business since 1787 and chock full of cool old buildings, but Buffalo Trace is…
22.48 MILES
American pioneer and Kentucky folk hero Daniel Boone, whose adventures led him to settle present-day Kentucky, is buried on a hilltop in Frankfort…
19.36 MILES
This distillery sits on Wild Turkey Hill overlooking the Kentucky River. More industrial and less self-consciously old-fashioned than many of its…
22.42 MILES
One of the most scenic distilleries, Four Roses sits on the banks of the Salt River in red-roofed, Spanish Mission–style buildings. Hour-long tours with a…
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This modest 1806 house has articles from the first lady's childhood and her years as Abe's wife, including original White House pieces. Tours are held…
2. Alltech Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co
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It isn’t the most exciting or atmospheric facility around, but it does sport a handy dual setup where you can see both a distillery and a brewery in…
0.94 MILES
Arguably the best of Lexington’s micro-distillers, it uses blue corn instead of standard corn to make its bourbon, which you’ll learn about from the super…
4. Lexington Art League at Loudoun House
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Art and architecture buffs won't want to miss this edgy, contemporary visual arts gallery housed in a freestanding American Gothic Revival mansion in the…
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A micro-distiller set in the barrel house of the now-defunct Pepper Distillery. It bottles bourbon, two moonshines (one aged in bourbon barrels), vodka…
1.58 MILES
Part historic home and part public park with storybook gardens, Ashland was the Italianate estate of famed statesman and great compromiser Henry Clay …
5.46 MILES
The company that owns the famed Keeneland track also owns this farm where you can see working racehorses up close during 90-minute tours of the stables,…
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The museum houses a 1940s Hollywood jewelry designer's remarkable collection of stones, trinkets and dollhouses. Don't miss the Shell Grotto, an old…