KENTUCKY

The lobby ceiling of this arena stretches 10,000 square feet and is designed to look like the river…

There is a special kind of hunger that only shows up on a chilly fall morning. Cereal will…

One Kentucky farm stand keeps a live beehive right inside the store. You can watch the bees at…

You have probably bought apples from a grocery store bin more times than you can count. Some were…

An old railroad bridge over the Ohio River once had no way on or off. Folks even called…

Real snow, eight racing lanes, and a tubing hill four stories tall. That’s waiting for you at a…

A real astronomer stands under a 40-foot dome and talks you through the universe, live, for free. No…

Someone just handed a small college $225 million and refused to put their name on it. No building…

You can smell good barbecue long before you see it. That sweet, smoky scent drifts across the parking…

More than 100 dealers share one roof here, spread across over 45,000 square feet of an old meatpacking…

One go-kart track here stretches more than a mile and a half. That’s billed as the longest go-kart…

One Kentucky butcher shop hands out bundles holding more than 30 pounds of fresh meat in a single…

More than 2,100 babies arrived at one hospital in a single year. That’s a lot of tiny socks,…

A Louisville bakery has been baking German butter kuchen since 1924. That is older than sliced bread sold…

Cowboys compete for a gold belt buckle here, right in the middle of the world’s largest all-breed, purebred…

Do you come home from every family walk with pockets full of pretty rocks? Then this Kentucky shop…

You know that feeling when a pastry case makes you forget your manners? This Kentucky bakery is ready…

Yelp once ranked a small Mediterranean spot in Kentucky as the third-best new restaurant in all of America….

One Kentucky nursing home sits on a seven-acre campus with walking paths, a shaded park, and a play…

More than 200 cat surgeries get scheduled every single week at one clinic in Kentucky. That’s not a…

One Kentucky deli will hollow out a kosher dill pickle and stuff it with ham and cheddar. Yes,…

Fourteen championship races. Two days. One racetrack that started as a private training track a man began laying…

More than 40 pinball machines sit inside a comic book shop. Some of those games still cost just…

One Kentucky restaurant makes its own tofu on site. Even better, you can see the tofu machine through…

The milk here comes with a cap of cream sitting right on top, and you have to shake…

No wheat has ever touched the fryers at this chicken joint. Not once, not ever. That one fact…

You know that feeling when a new season makes you want to start a project? Fall does that…

A 3,800-pound bronze Secretariat gallops in the middle of a roundabout here. Yes, a traffic circle with a…

A museum here sits right on top of an excavated mound. You can look straight into the dig…

Three meats, one soft roll, and a pile of crispy potato sticks on top. That’s the tripleta, a…

A country ham from a small-town general store hangs in a museum in Spain, right beside some of…

A young mother in an 1891 legend may have woken up after her burial, and a life-size statue…

A walk-in dragon cave sits inside an old National Guard armory. Yes, really. And it shares the building…

A concrete wall built to hold back a raging river now holds more than 50 giant, photo-realistic paintings….

Have you ever imagined a boat so big it could hold a whole zoo? Someone in Kentucky decided…

Have you ever wished you could shop like a wizard for one afternoon? Northern Kentucky has a spot…

Have you ever had a goat steal your heart in under five seconds? It happens more often than…

Most souvenirs end up forgotten in a drawer next to the takeout menus. The best ones are the…

You might expect a small Kentucky town to keep its secrets in a dusty attic. This one keeps…

A chef cooks your dinner from scratch while the train rolls across a 60-foot-high trestle built in 1860….

Something big is being planned in a small Kentucky town, and nobody is spilling the details. This one…

A buffet big enough to seat roughly 1,500 people at once sits right beside a full-size Noah’s Ark…

Pickled quail eggs share shelf space with pumpkin butter at one little country market. Then there’s the Fruity…

I always thought a turkey was just a turkey until I learned about this Kentucky farm. Their birds…

A man everyone calls Pops started churning homemade ice cream for family gatherings in 1975. The farm still…

Twin bell towers rise 200 feet over this church, and they stood as the tallest structures in their…

Somewhere in Kentucky, the moving boxes keep piling up, and the locals have stopped acting surprised. One city…

Rare Swiss sheep with black faces and curly white wool joined a Kentucky holiday festival last winter. Yes,…

Grass-fed Wagyu-Angus beef, Berkshire pork, and heritage turkey all come from one organic family farm. The same land…

A merchant marine came home with one dream, and he opened a roller rink on New Year’s Eve…