Best Kentucky Attraction (2018)

The Corvette, America's legendary sports car, is manufactured only in Bowling Green, and the city also plays host to the National Corvette Museum. Here automobile enthusiasts will find a collection of more than 80 Corvettes in period settings alongside numerous interactive exhibits. Visitors can even snap a selfie behind the wheel of a 2015 Stingray.
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Old Friends at Dream Chase Farm provides a sanctuary for retired thoroughbreds after their racing and breeding careers have come to an end. Visitors to this equine retirement community meet the residents while learning about their lives and careers.
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For four decades during the twentieth century, miners blasted out a huge limestone quarry today known as the Louisville Mega Cavern. But this isn't any ordinary mine tour; visitors to the Mega Cavern can take a tram tour along the 17 miles of corridors beneath Louisville, race along six subterranean zip lines (the world's only fully underground zip line course), navigate an underground aerial ropes course or practice tricks at the first and only underground bike park (and the largest indoor bike park on the planet).
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The National Quilt Museum, the largest museum devoted to quilts and fiber arts in the world, maintains three galleries showcasing a colorful collection of exquisite fiber arts that's rotated several times throughout the year, so there's always something new to see.
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Home of the Kentucky Derby – the Greatest Two Minutes in Sports – Churchill Downs was founded in 1874 as a thoroughbred racing venue for some of the world's biggest purses. Even when the track is quiet, Churchill Downs is also home to the Kentucky Derby Museum, complete with its collection of colorful and creative hats.
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Kentucky Horse Park, the Bluegrass State's largest state-owned tourist attraction, celebrates a love of horses through horse-drawn tours and rides, equine presentations, live shows and the world's largest horse museum, the Smithsonian-affiliated International Museum of the Horse.
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Baseball is America's pastime, and this Louisville museum celebrates the past, present and future of the sport through the lens of one iconic piece of equipment, the Louisville Slugger. Visitors can tour the bat factory, see the bat that hit 21 of Babe Ruth's record setting 60 home runs in 1927 and try out the latest line of Louisville Slugger bats in Bud's Batting Cage.
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With more than 400 miles of explored passages, Mammoth Cave National Park protects the world's longest known cave system. Themed cave tours take visitors into various portions of the cave, some paved and easily navigated and others undeveloped and more challenging.
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Encompassing a million gallons of water and thousands of animals from around the world, the Newport Aquarium operates the first shark ray breeding program in the world. The Amazon Tunnel allows visitors to walk along the floor of the Amazon River during its flooded season, while the Dangerous & Deadly exhibit showcases some of the world’s most lethal aquatic creatures. Eight species of crocodiles from four different continents can be seen at Gator Alley – one of the most diverse crocodilian collections in the country.
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The 75,000-square-foot Creation Museum takes visitors on a journey through Biblical history, from Adam and Eve's encounter with the serpent in the Garden of Eden through to the modern day discovery of Lucy and its implications for the discussion of evolution and creationism. 
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