Louisville
This must-see museum tells the tale of the city's most famous native: a local boxer nicknamed the Louisville Lip or, simply, The Greatest. Highlights…
Must-see attractions in Kentucky
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory
Louisville
See how baseball's most famous bat is made. Hillerich & Bradsby Co have been manufacturing the Louisville Slugger here since 1884. Admission includes a…
Mammoth Cave National Park
With the longest cave system on earth, this national park has some 400 miles of surveyed passageways. Mammoth is at least three times longer than any…
Louisville
Built in 1927 and revamped to the tune of $60 million in recent years, Kentucky's most important art museum – unaffiliated but on the University of…
Kentucky
Touring Maker's is like visiting a historic theme park, in a good way. You'll see the old gristmill, the 1840s master distiller's house and the old…
Louisville
On the Churchill Downs racetrack grounds, the museum has exhibits on derby history, including a peek into the life of jockeys and a roundup of the most…
Kentucky
Micro-distiller Willett offers a terrific tour of its vintage 120-acre property, including a prolonged look into the refurbished chalet distillery where…
Louisville
A micro-distillery that's one of the hippest spots around, Angel's Envy bucks local tradition by finishing its bourbon in port barrels, giving it a hint…
Kentucky
Beam is the country's best-selling bourbon. Watch a film about the Beam family, take the 90-minute tour through the factory and warehouses, and then…
Louisville
A new Whiskey Row facility that opened in 2018, Old Forester itself is a classic brand, around since the 1870s. The distillery lets you view the entire…
Evan Williams Bourbon Experience
Louisville
The first distillery to open on Whiskey Row, Evan Williams puts on quite a multimedia show. Exhibits transport you back to the 1780s when bourbon-making…
Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co
Louisville
This small distiller located downtown along Whiskey Row has an intriguing story. First opened in the 1880s, it closed during WWI to conserve corn. It…
Kentucky
Car buffs should make a pit stop to ogle some 80 shiny Corvette models, including slick one-off concept cars and prototypes. You can’t miss the place, as…
Kentucky
The largest producer in Kentucky, Heaven Hill makes Evan Williams, Elijah Craig and Larceny. There are two ways to immerse in the scene. The Mashbill Tour…
Kentucky
Members of the Beam family – as in the folks who make mega selling Jim Beam – own Limestone Branch. The micro-distillery looks like a western lodge, all…
Kentucky
The entrance to Lux Row via a long, tree-shaded driveway sets the idyllic scene. The distillery sprawls across a 90-acre farm where peacocks roam and the…
Kentucky
While Barton has some cool old buildings, it’s more of a straightforward, working distillery than a scenic, museum-y one. The hour-long traditional tour…
Kentucky
A mother-daughter team creates Jeptha Creed’s bourbons, flavored vodkas and moonshines. They grow the corn and fruit used in their products on the farm…
Louisville
This state-of-the-art museum covers 1000 years of history with grisly battle dioramas and costumed interpreters demonstrating swordplay and staging mock…
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park
Kentucky
Cumberland Falls is one of the few places in the world to see a moonbow, a rainbow that forms in the water's mist at night. The park website has dates for…
Kentucky
Located just off I-75 at exit 77, the center is part gallery, part craft shop and part brochure-laden visitor center. The gallery’s sculptures, glassworks…
Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum
Kentucky
The museum moved into its shiny new riverfront digs in late 2018. Any banjo picker or fiddle fan will appreciate the two floors of exhibits, including…
Kentucky
It’s far cooler than you might think. The works hanging on the walls look more like photographs, or maybe oil paintings or stained glass, until you get…
Kentucky
After the Ohio River burst its banks and submerged Paducah in 1937, the town built a flood wall along the waterway. Murals now adorn a three-block stretch…
Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
Kentucky
Tells the bourbon story with old moonshine stills, an impressive bottle collection and other artifacts. Donations appreciated.
Kentucky
Lincoln's birthplace has a replica of the single-room log cabin where he was born, enshrined in a neoclassical building that mimics his famed memorial in…
Louisville
Three floors of exhibits illuminate biology, physiology, physics, computing and more for families (kids love it) on historic Main St. For an extra $8 to …
