Bill Monroe Birthplace
Hollywood glamor, suggesting just how far Elvis had strayed from his Mississippi Delta roots, Bill Monroe's modest homeplace evokes his humble beginnings and shows that despite his worldwide fame, his roots remained firmly entrenched in Kentucky soil.
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Headley-Whitney Museum
George Headley may have been an accomplished artist (studying at the Art Student’s League in New York and at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and winning the Vicenza Gold Cup for international expertise in jewelry design), but he was also a crackerjack marketer.
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International Bluegrass Museum
You might call it the "U.N. of bluegrass." As Mike Lawing picks away on the banjo, bass guitar and mandolin, an appreciative audience whose members have come all the way to western Kentucky from England, Scotland, Japan, India and Australia, might be said to hang on his every strum.
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Mountain Homeplace
The Mountain HomePlace opened in July 1995 with five original 19th and early 20th century structures, making up the core of the farmstead just west of Paintsville on Paintsville Lake, through an agreement with the Corps of Engineers.
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Shaker Village
It’s a scene that could be reproduced on a Hallmark Greeting Card or in a Thomas Kinkade painting – 2,900 acres of unspoiled, undulating farmland ending at the stark palisades of the Kentucky River. The rolling hills, softened by early morning river mist, are unbroken except for stream-laced woodlands, 35 miles of hiking trails and 34 buildings, dating back nearly 200 years, and bordered by immaculate white picket fences.
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Keeneland Track Kitchen
LEXINGTON, Ky. It's 7:30 on a Friday morning and inside the smallish building tucked away near the stable area at Lexington's Keeneland Race Track, a man in a business suit sporting a $50 haircut and perfectly manicured nails chats amiably with another man in jeans and mud-caked boots, with hair that looks as if he cut it with garden shears and nails that are rimed with dirt.
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Muhammad Ali Center
He “floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee” all the way to the World Heavyweight title on three separate occasions. He was stripped of his title after a courageous and controversial refusal to be inducted into the United States military during the Vietnam War. He was lauded for his humanitarian efforts and reviled for his conversion from Christianity to Islam, and for changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali.
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National Corvette Museum
The vivid red and yellow structure visible from Interstate 65 in Bowling Green, Kentucky could be mistaken for a large yellow mushroom impaled on a red toothpick, or even a psychedelic spaceship come to roost. But the flamboyant exterior architecture is only a warmup for the flamboyant product on display within.
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Puttin' on the Glitz
Imagine a place where staid Victorian drawing room meets 1930s Hollywood over-the-top glamour; where New England blue blood Brahmin rubs elbows with Appalachian mountain folk; where elegant French Provincial co-exists with cozy English cottage chic. Where would you find such a place, you ask? London's Soho? New York's West Village? Paris's Montmartre? New Orleans' Royal Street? Try Nonesuch, Kentucky.
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