Must-see attractions in Kentucky

  • Muhammad Ali Center

    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…

  • Louisville Slugger museum and factory - LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY - JUNE 14, 2019; Shutterstock ID 1441901372; your: Bridget Brown; gl: 65050; netsuite: Online Editorial; full: POI Image Update

    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

    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…

  • Speed Art Museum

    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…

  • Maker's Mark

    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…

  • Kentucky Derby Museum

    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…

  • Willett

    Kentucky

    Micro-distiller Willett offers a terrific tour of its vintage 120-acre property, including a prolonged look into the refurbished chalet distillery where…

  • Angel's Envy

    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…

  • Jim Beam American Stillhouse

    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…

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    Old Forester Distilling Co

    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…

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    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…

  • Jarrod Rampy rolls a barrel for bourbon into the Kentucky Peerless Distilling company in Louisville, Kentucky on April 11, 2019. - To be called Bourbon in the United States the whiskey mash contents require a minimum of 51 percent corn and stored in a new barrel lined with charred oak. After Canada, China, Mexico and the European Union slapped import duties from 10 to 25 percent on US whiskey and bourbon in 2018, exports dropped over 12 percent in the second quarter. (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)        (Photo credit should read ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

    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…

  • National Corvette Museum

    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…

  • Heaven Hill

    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…

  • Limestone Branch

    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…

  • Lux Row Distillers

    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…

  • Barton 1792

    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…

  • Jeptha Creed

    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…

  • Frazier History Museum

    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 Artisan Center

    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…

  • National Quilt Museum

    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…

  • Floodwater Murals

    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…

  • Abraham Lincoln Birthplace

    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…

  • Kentucky Science Center

    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 …