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Dinosaur World in Cave City, Kentucky. (Creative Commons)

Cave City, Kentucky

Dinosaur World

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

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Wigwam Village No. 2. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Wigwam Village #2

One of few surviving themed motels on Route 66.

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Chairs from Guntown's original chairlift lay rusty below it.

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Funtown Mountain

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

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Tourists to Floyd Collins' coffin in Crystal Cave

Cave City, Kentucky

Floyd Collins Museum

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

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Munfordville, Kentucky

Kentucky's Stonehenge

The creator relocated nearly every large rock he could find over 1000 acres in order to create his masterpiece.

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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

Mammoth Cave

World's longest known cave.

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A sad sight for car collectors everywhere

Bowling Green, Kentucky

National Corvette Museum Sinkhole

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

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