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Kentucky Oddities

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Roadside Attractions

Apple Valley Hillbilly Garden

Calvert City, Kentucky

A former country store has mutated into a yard of pun sculptures, found-object creatures, vintage toys, model trains, and homemade roadside chaos.

Strange Museums

Vent Haven Museum

Fort Mitchell, Kentucky

More than 1,400 ventriloquist figures stare from the world's only museum devoted entirely to ventriloquism, creating one of Kentucky's most uncanny collections.

Curious Landmarks

Mother Goose House

Hazard, Kentucky

A round stone building in Hazard wears a colossal goose as its roof, complete with egg-shaped windows, headlight eyes, and proportions based on a real bird…

A pale moonbow arcing through mist at Cumberland Falls in Kentucky at night

Natural Oddities

Cumberland Falls Moonbow

Corbin, Kentucky

On clear nights near a full moon, mist rising from Cumberland Falls can bend moonlight into a pale nocturnal rainbow.

Natural Oddities

Big Bone Lick

Union, Kentucky

A Kentucky salt lick became an Ice Age bone trap where mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ancient bison, and other megafauna left remains in the mud.

Strange Museums

The Corvette Museum Sinkhole

Bowling Green, Kentucky

A hidden void opened beneath a car museum before dawn, ripping a 30-foot-deep hole through the Skydome floor and swallowing eight Corvettes.

Historic Oddities

Wooldridge Monuments

Mayfield, Kentucky

Eighteen stone figures gather around one man's grave, including relatives, hunting dogs, a horse, a deer, a fox, and Wooldridge himself at the center of it…

Curious Landmarks

Louisville Mega Cavern

Louisville, Kentucky

Beneath Louisville lies a 100-acre former limestone mine classified as a building, with internal roads, commercial space, tours, and millions of square feet underground.

Roadside Attractions

Chained Rock

Pineville, Kentucky

A colossal rock looms over Pineville with a giant iron chain strapped across it, installed in 1933 to turn a local tall tale into a real…

Historic Bath County Courthouse in Owingsville, Kentucky, home of the Bath County History Museum

Strange Museums

Kentucky Meat Shower

Owingsville, Kentucky

In 1876, pieces of meat fell across a Bath County farm under a clear sky, and a surviving sample has kept one of Kentucky's strangest mysteries…