Thursday, May 17, 2012

Top 10 Kentucky Attractions


The America Beautiful Network announced today the Top 10 Kentucky Attractions according to traveler popularity.

Top 10 Kentucky Attractions

  • Hidden River Cave Museum – Hidden River Cave Museum – Horse Cave, Kentucky The American Cave Museum and Hidden River Cave will fill your day with exciting fun.
  • Bluegrass Heritage Museum – Bluegrass Heritage Museum – Winchester, Kentucky Take a trip to the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky and you will see the beauty of rolling hills.
  • Elk View Scenic Byway – Elk View Scenic Byway – Breathitt, Knott and Perry Counties, Kentucky Start your trip to the Elk View Scenic Byway.
  • Kentucky Coal Mining Museum – Kentucky Coal Mining Museum – Benham, Kentucky Life for the coal miner has never been easy.
  • Heaven Hill Distilleries Trolley in Bardstown, KY. Bardstown, Kentucky is known for its legendary bourbon, as well as the famous Beam family-run distillery named Heaven Hill.  The Heaven Hill Distilleries Trolley provides a historical tour of all points of historic interest in downtown Bardstown.
  • Speed Art Museum – This is a huge art museum with an expansive collection of more than 12,000 pieces of artwork.  The Speed Art Museum displays items from its own collection as well as hosting temporary exhibits featuring art from other museums around the world.
  • Ventriloquist Museum – This unique stop, for those visiting the area, will have you reliving memories from when you were younger and watching the talented ventriloquists bring you from the real world into the often times humorous world of the “dummy”.
  • Kentucky Coal Mining Museum – here in Benham is a museum that will bring to life one aspect of the life that you may not have given much thought to, the company store.  The museum building was the second building built by the company to house a company commissary.
  • American Saddlebred Museum – The American Saddlebred Museum is located in Lexington, Kentucky on the Kentucky Horse Park grounds.  A recent exhibition at the museum in 2008 was titled “For the Love of a Horse: Children and Saddlebreds”.
  • Adsmore House & Gardens – Located just one block north of historic downtown Princeton, KY, the Adsmore House & Gardens spread across a vast, four acre estate.  Adsmore is considered to be the only living house museum in existence in Kentucky.

Top 10 Kentucky Attractions – updated daily.