Haunted Kentucky

93 haunted destinations cataloged across Kentucky, spanning 51 counties. The collection features outdoor, cemetery, and other dark tourism site — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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The vast Rotunda Room chamber inside Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, photographed by the USGS
Outdoor / Natural Site

Mammoth Cave National Park

Mammoth Cave, KY

Mammoth Cave is the world's longest known cave system with over 426 surveyed miles of passages. The cave was developed as a tourist site beginning in the 1810s and is internationally significant for the work of enslaved African American guide Stephen Bishop, who mapped much of the system in the 1840s and 1850s. The park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an International Biosphere Reserve.

$$ All Ages; Wild Cave Tour ages 16+; some tours have minimum age and height requirements Family: Moderate
Lexington Cemetery 1849 rural-style burial ground gates Lexington Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Lexington Cemetery

Lexington, KY

The Lexington Cemetery was chartered in 1848 and dedicated in 1849 as a rural-style burial ground, part of the 19th-century cemetery reform movement that produced landscaped, park-like burial grounds. The 170-acre site is an accredited arboretum and contains the graves of Henry Clay, Confederate cavalry general John Hunt Morgan, hundreds of Civil War soldiers from both sides, and Mary Todd Lincoln's family members.

$ All Ages Family: High
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning historic limestone library Lexington Kentucky
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Museum / Historical Site

Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning

Lexington, KY

The Carnegie Center building was constructed in 1906 of Bedford limestone in the Classical Revival style as Lexington's first public library, funded by a $60,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. It served as the city's central library for most of the 20th century. After the library moved to East Main Street, the building reopened in 1992 as the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning under literacy advocate First Lady Barbara Bush.

$ All Ages Family: High
Gnarled Witches' Tree at the corner of South 6th Street and Park Avenue in Old Louisville's St. James-Belgravia Historic District.
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Outdoor / Natural Site

The Witches' Tree

Louisville, KY

According to widely retold local legend, a maple tree at the northwest corner of 6th and Park in Old Louisville was selected by a city committee in spring 1889 to provide the May pole for the 1890 May Day celebration. Eleven months to the day after the tree was cut, on March 27, 1890, one of the most destructive tornadoes in Kentucky's history tore through downtown Louisville, killing approximately 100 people. The current gnarled tree is said to have grown from the original stump after a lightning strike during the storm.

$ All Ages Family: High
Maple Grove Cemetery in Bloomfield, Kentucky with historical marker
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Maple Grove Cemetery

Bloomfield, KY

Maple Grove Cemetery in Bloomfield, Kentucky holds the shared grave of Anna Cooke Beauchamp and Jereboam O. Beauchamp, central figures of the 1825 Beauchamp-Sharp Tragedy. Jereboam was hanged in July 1826 for the murder of Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Anna died of self-inflicted wounds in his cell hours before his execution. A Kentucky Historical Society marker stands at the site.

$ All Ages Family: High
Maria Dudley House 1879 Victorian residence Gratz Park Lexington Kentucky
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Maria Dudley House

Lexington, KY

The Maria Dudley House was built in 1879 by Maria B. Dudley on what had previously been the side yard of the Hunt-Morgan House, in Lexington's Gratz Park Historic District. Designed by architect Phelix Lundin in a starkly Victorian style, the castle-like townhouse stands out among the predominantly Federal and Greek Revival buildings of the surrounding park. It remains a private residence today.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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Lexington — 16

The front facade of Ashland, the country estate of statesman Henry Clay, rebuilt in 1857 in Lexington, Kentucky
Museum / Historical Site

Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate

Lexington, KY

Ashland was the country estate of Henry Clay, the Kentucky senator, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, and three-time presidential candidate known as the Great Compromiser. Clay began acquiring the land in 1804 and lived at Ashland from roughly 1806 until his death in 1852. The current mansion is an 1857 reconstruction by his son James Clay after the original house was demolished due to structural failures. The estate is a National Historic Landmark and a working historic-house museum on 17 surviving acres.

$$ All Ages Family: High
The 1814 Bodley-Bullock House, a Federal-style brick residence in the Gratz Park Historic District of Lexington, Kentucky
Haunted House / Historic Home

Bodley-Bullock House

Lexington, KY

Built circa 1814 for Lexington mayor Thomas Pindell and shortly sold to General Thomas Bodley, a War of 1812 veteran, the Bodley-Bullock House is a Federal-style residence in the Gratz Park Historic District. It served as Union Army headquarters during the Civil War and was later owned by Dr. Waller Bullock and his wife Minnie, who left the property in trust to Transylvania University. The Junior League of Lexington has operated it as an event venue since 1985.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The Campbell House historic hotel building on South Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky
Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Campbell House

Lexington, KY

The Campbell House was constructed in 1951 as a luxury hotel in Lexington. Originally developed as a historic motor inn in an equestrian town, it has operated continuously as a hospitality facility and developed a reputation as one of Kentucky's most renowned haunted hotels.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Gratz Park Inn now The Sire Hotel Lexington former 1920 Lexington Clinic building
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Gratz Park Inn (The Sire Hotel Lexington)

Lexington, KY

The building at 120 West Second Street was constructed in 1920 as the Lexington Clinic, central Kentucky's first multi-specialty medical practice. It functioned as the clinic's main facility for decades before being converted to a boutique hotel called the Gratz Park Inn in 1988. The hotel was rebranded as The Sire Hotel Lexington, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, in the mid-2020s.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Hunt-Morgan House Federal style brick residence in Lexington Kentucky historic district
Haunted House / Historic Home

Hunt-Morgan House

Lexington, KY

The Hunt-Morgan House, known as Hopemont, was completed in 1814 for John Wesley Hunt, described by contemporaries as Kentucky's first millionaire. The Federal-style mansion in Lexington's Gratz Park Historic District later became the boyhood home of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and the birthplace of Nobel laureate Thomas Hunt Morgan, making it one of the most historically layered private residences in the antebellum South.

$$ All Ages Family: High
John Stark House Federal townhouse Gratz Park Lexington Kentucky
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Haunted House / Historic Home

John Stark House

Lexington, KY

The Federal townhouse at 228 Market Street was built in 1813 by bricklayer Robert Grinstead and sold to farmer John Stark, the owner who gave the house its surviving name. Transylvania University rented the property in 1820 to house its president Horace Holley, and architect Gideon Shryock lived there in 1832 while supervising construction of Old Morrison. The house later became the home of Dr. Robert Peter, the Transylvania medical professor who served as a Union surgeon during the Civil War.

$ All Ages Family: High
Loudoun House 1852 Gothic Revival villa front facade in Lexington, Kentucky
Haunted House / Historic Home

Loudoun House

Lexington, KY

Loudoun House is an 1852 Gothic Revival villa in Lexington, Kentucky, designed by the celebrated American architect Alexander Jackson Davis for Francis Key Hunt. It is one of the few surviving residential examples of Davis's Gothic Revival work and one of only three Davis-designed castellated villas in the United States. The building has housed LexArts (formerly the Lexington Art League) since 1984.

$ All Ages Family: High
The Mary Todd Lincoln House, a Georgian brick former tavern at 578 West Main Street in Lexington, Kentucky
Museum / Historical Site

Mary Todd Lincoln House

Lexington, KY

The Mary Todd Lincoln House at 578 West Main Street was built circa 1803-1806 as a tavern called The Sign of the Green Tree. Robert Smith Todd purchased the 14-room Georgian brick house in 1832, and his daughter Mary lived there from age 13 until she left for Springfield, Illinois in 1839. The house opened to the public in 1977 as the first historic site in the United States dedicated to a First Lady.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Old Morrison, the 1834 Greek Revival main building of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, designed by Gideon Shryock
Other Dark Tourism Site

Old Morrison (Transylvania University)

Lexington, KY

Old Morrison was completed in 1834 as the main building of Transylvania University, designed by Gideon Shryock in the Greek Revival style. It is named for benefactor Colonel James Morrison and was largely destroyed by a fire in May 1969 before being rebuilt and restored. A crypt at the north end holds remains attributed to 19th-century botanist Constantine Rafinesque.

$ All Ages Family: High
Latrobe's Pope Villa 1811 neoclassical residence Lexington Kentucky
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Museum / Historical Site

Latrobe's Pope Villa

Lexington, KY

Pope Villa was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe — architect of the U.S. Capitol — for Kentucky Senator John Pope and his wife Eliza in 1811. The neoclassical villa is a square plan with a domed central rotunda on the second floor and is considered Latrobe's best surviving residential commission. After a 1987 fire damaged the interior, the Blue Grass Trust acquired the property and is conducting ongoing preservation.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Waveland State Historic Site Greek Revival mansion Lexington Kentucky
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Museum / Historical Site

Waveland State Historic Site

Lexington, KY

Waveland is a Greek Revival mansion completed in 1848 by Joseph Bryan, a grandnephew of Daniel Boone, on land originally surveyed by Boone himself. The 10-acre site is operated by Kentucky State Parks and preserves the main house, original slave quarters, smokehouse, and ice house. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Fire Station No. 4 (Vogt Reel House), Jacobean Revival firehouse on Jefferson Street in Lexington
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Fire Station No. 4 (Vogt Reel House)

Lexington, KY

Fire Station No. 4, also known as the Vogt Reel House, opened in 1904 at 246 Jefferson Street as a Jacobean Revival fire-and-hose house. It remains in active service as Lexington's oldest operating fire station. Firefighter Henry H. McDonald, age 67, died of a heart attack in his bunk on Christmas Day 1945 after 28 years on the job.

$ All Ages Family: High
The Cheapside block (now Henry A. Tandy Centennial Park) at the corner of Cheapside and West Short Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky
Outdoor / Natural Site

Henry A. Tandy Centennial Park (formerly Cheapside Park)

Lexington, KY

The block between Upper and Mill streets has functioned as Lexington's central public space since the city's founding in 1781, originally as 'Public Square' and later 'Cheapside Park.' Before the Civil War it hosted one of Kentucky's largest slave auctions. In August 2020 it was renamed for Henry A. Tandy, the formerly-enslaved mason whose firm Tandy & Byrd laid the brick under the adjoining 1900 courthouse.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Restored 1922 Adamesque facade and lighted marquee of the Kentucky Theatre on East Main Street in downtown Lexington
Theater / Performance Venue

Kentucky Theatre

Lexington, KY

The Kentucky Theatre opened October 4, 1922 as a 1,100-seat Adamesque movie palace on East Main Street, surviving the 1929 flood and a devastating 1987 fire. After city acquisition and restoration, it reopened in 1992 as a nonprofit arthouse cinema, with the original Wurlitzer pipe organ still in place.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Old Episcopal Burying Ground with weathered 19th-century gravestones and the stone chapel on East Third Street, Lexington, Kentucky
Cemetery / Burial Ground

Old Episcopal Burying Ground

Lexington, KY

Christ Church purchased this land in 1832 for use as a burial ground; the cemetery saw heavy use during the 1833 and 1849 cholera epidemics and again during the Civil War. A John McMurtry-designed stone chapel was added in 1867. Approximately 600 burials took place between 1833 and 1879. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, it is now Lexington's oldest surviving cemetery.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Richardsonian Romanesque limestone exterior and bulbous octagonal dome of the Old Fayette County Courthouse, now Lexington History Center, on West Main Street
Museum / Historical Site

Old Fayette County Courthouse (Lexington History Center)

Lexington, KY

The Old Fayette County Courthouse at 215 West Main is the fifth courthouse on a Lexington site whose first structure went up in 1782. The current Richardsonian-influenced building was designed by Cleveland architects Lehman & Schmitt and built 1898–1900 after the 1887 predecessor burned in 1897. Restored in 2018, it now serves as the Lexington History Center, civic event venue, and visitor center.

$ All Ages Family: High

Louisville — 15

Richardsonian Romanesque limestone exterior of the Conrad-Caldwell House on St. James Court in Old Louisville
Haunted House / Historic Home

Conrad-Caldwell House Museum

Louisville, KY

The Conrad-Caldwell House was completed in 1895 for tanning industrialist Theophilus Conrad at 1402 St. James Court in Louisville's Old Louisville historic district. The Richardsonian Romanesque mansion of rough-cut limestone is operated today as a museum and is a centerpiece of one of the largest Victorian residential districts in the United States.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Steam-powered sternwheel paddleboat Belle of Louisville moored at the downtown Louisville wharf on the Ohio River
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Museum / Historical Site

Belle of Louisville

Louisville, KY

The Belle of Louisville was built in 1914 in Pittsburgh as the Idlewild for the West Memphis Packet Company; she was renamed Avalon in 1948 and finally Belle of Louisville in 1962 when the city of Louisville purchased her. The vessel is a National Historic Landmark and is the oldest operating river steamboat in the United States.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Georgian Revival exterior of the Brown Hotel at 4th and Broadway in downtown Louisville
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Brown Hotel

Louisville, KY

The Brown Hotel was built by Kentucky lumberman and industrialist James Graham Brown and opened on October 25, 1923. The 16-story Georgian Revival building, designed by Preston J. Bradshaw, is the birthplace of the Hot Brown sandwich (created by chef Fred Schmidt in 1926). Brown lived in the 15th-floor penthouse with his dog Woozem until his death in 1969.

$$$ All Ages Family: High
Spanish Baroque marquee and facade of the Louisville Palace Theatre on South Fourth Street
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Theater / Performance Venue

Louisville Palace Theatre

Louisville, KY

The Louisville Palace opened on September 1, 1928 as Loew's and United Artists State Theatre. Designed by atmospheric theater architect John Eberson in the Spanish Baroque style, it features sculpted busts of historical figures in its 'Spanish courtyard' ceiling. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and operates today as a 2,800-seat Live Nation concert venue.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Chicago-style stone-and-brick facade of the 1905 Old Jefferson County Jail Building at 514 West Liberty Street in downtown Louisville.
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Prison / Reformatory

Old Jefferson County Jail Building

Louisville, KY

The Old Jefferson County Jail at 514 West Liberty Street was built in 1905 in the Chicago architectural style by D.X. Murphy & Bros. It replaced an 1844 jail on Jefferson Street that had become structurally derelict. The building incarcerated prisoners until the 1980s, was converted to an office complex in 1983, and today houses the Commonwealth's Attorney, the Circuit Court Clerk, and the Archives and Records Department.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Pink Victorian mansion with French chateau turret at the south end of St. James Court in Old Louisville
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Haunted House / Historic Home

The Pink Palace

Louisville, KY

The Pink Palace is a three-story Victorian mansion with a French chateau-style turret at 1473 St. James Court in Old Louisville. Built around 1891, it operated initially as the St. James Court Gentlemen's Club and Casino and was acquired in the 1910s by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which painted the red brick exterior pink. It is a private residence and a fixture of Old Louisville ghost walks.

$ All Ages Family: High
Italianate three-story townhouse facade of the Ronald-Brennan House on South Fifth Street in downtown Louisville
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Ronald-Brennan House

Louisville, KY

The Ronald-Brennan House at 631 South Fifth Street in downtown Louisville is a three-story Italianate townhouse built in 1868 for tobacco merchant Francis S. J. Ronald. In 1884 the property was sold to Irish-born inventor Thomas Brennan, whose family occupied the home until 1969. The house has operated as a museum since 1969 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Beaux-Arts Baroque exterior of the Seelbach Hilton in downtown Louisville at South Fourth Street
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Seelbach Hilton Louisville

Louisville, KY

The Seelbach Hotel opened in 1905 in downtown Louisville, built by Bavarian-born brothers Otto and Louis Seelbach as a Beaux-Arts Baroque luxury establishment. It has hosted nine U.S. presidents and was a favorite of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who set Tom and Daisy Buchanan's wedding there in The Great Gatsby. The hotel is on the National Register of Historic Places and operates today as part of the Hilton portfolio.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Greek Revival facade of the Old Bank of Louisville at 316 West Main Street, now Actors Theatre of Louisville
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Theater / Performance Venue

Actors Theatre of Louisville

Louisville, KY

Actors Theatre of Louisville is the State Theatre of Kentucky and one of the country's leading regional theaters. Since 1972 it has been housed in the 1837 Greek Revival Old Bank of Louisville at 316 West Main Street, a National Historic Landmark designated in 1971, combined with an adjacent Victorian commercial building. Its 643-seat Pamela Brown Auditorium opened in October 1972 and is named for the late Louisville actress and Brown-family heiress.

$$ All Ages Family: High
Exterior of the historic Baxter Avenue Morgue in Louisville's Highlands neighborhood
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Baxter Avenue Morgue

Louisville, KY

The Baxter Avenue Morgue building dates to the 1860s, when it operated as a morgue and crematorium serving the adjacent Eastern Cemetery and Cave Hill Cemetery in what is now Louisville's Highlands. Over the twentieth century the structure was used as a laundromat, as cold storage, and as an embalming school in the 1970s. It now operates year-round as a haunted attraction at 615 Baxter Avenue, with an officially branded Haunted Public Tour program.

$$ 16+ Family: Low
Beaux-Arts facade of the Ferguson Mansion, home of The Filson Historical Society, at 1310 S. 3rd Street in Old Louisville
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Museum / Historical Site

Ferguson Mansion (The Filson Historical Society)

Louisville, KY

The Ferguson Mansion was built between 1901 and 1905 at a cost of roughly $100,000 — about ten times the price of neighboring Old Louisville homes — for cordage industrialist Edwin Hite Ferguson. After Ferguson lost his fortune in 1907 and sold the house in 1924, the Pearson family operated it as Pearson Funeral Home for almost half a century. The Filson Historical Society, founded in 1884, purchased the mansion in 1984 and moved its collections in after a renovation completed in spring 1986.

$ All Ages Family: High
Classical-revival columned facade of First Church of Christ, Scientist on S. 3rd Street in Old Louisville
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Other Dark Tourism Site

First Church of Christ, Scientist

Louisville, KY

The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Old Louisville is a classical-revival Christian Science church on S. 3rd Street, distinguished by its columned front portico facing what was once Louisville's Millionaires Row. The congregation has occupied the building through the twentieth century and remains active today. Its location sits roughly two miles north of the former Camp Zachary Taylor, the largest U.S. WWI training cantonment, which figures heavily in the church's most famous local legend.

$ All Ages Family: High
Entrance to Sauerkraut Cave on the grounds of E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Sauerkraut Cave (E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park)

Louisville, KY

Sauerkraut Cave is a small limestone cave located on the grounds of E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in eastern Louisville. The site began as Virginia militia officer Isaac Hite's grant lands; the cave was modified for use by the Central Kentucky Lunatic Asylum (founded 1873, later Central State Hospital, also known as Lakeland Asylum) for cold storage of sauerkraut and other supplies. The asylum's 15-building campus housed up to 5,000 patients before being demolished in 1996; the park opened to the public in 1974.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Gothic Revival corner tower and gargoyle-lined ledges of Walnut Street Baptist Church at S. 3rd and St. Catherine in Old Louisville
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Walnut Street Baptist Church

Louisville, KY

Walnut Street Baptist Church organized in 1849 and originally met at the corner of 4th and Walnut Streets (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard) in downtown Louisville. In 1902 the congregation moved into its current Gothic Revival sanctuary at the corner of South 3rd and St. Catherine Streets in Old Louisville, where it remains today. The building's gargoyle-decorated exterior and corner location have made it one of the most recognizable churches in the Old Louisville preservation district.

$ All Ages Family: High
Chateauesque facade of the Jacob Widmer House at 1228 S. 3rd Street in Old Louisville
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Haunted House / Historic Home

Widmer House (Jacob Widmer House)

Louisville, KY

The four-bedroom Chateauesque-style residence at 1228 South 3rd Street was built in 1895 and is associated by name with the Jacob Widmer family, one of several German-American households that settled along Old Louisville's S. 3rd Street corridor in the late nineteenth century. The house is one of the showpieces of the largest contiguous Victorian-era preservation district in the United States.

$ All Ages Family: High

Elizabethtown — 3

Bethlehem Academy building in Elizabethtown, Kentucky
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Bethlehem Academy

Elizabethtown, KY

Historic building operated as convent then hotel before becoming restaurant. Building carries dark history of alleged murders.

$$ All Ages Family: Low
Ruined iron and stone cemetery gate at the end of St. John Road outside Elizabethtown, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Grandview Cemetery (Kasey's Cemetery / Gates of Hell)

Elizabethtown, KY

Grandview Cemetery, locally known as Kasey's Cemetery or by the nickname Gates of Hell, is a rural burial ground at the end of St. John Road outside Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in Hardin County. The cemetery contains graves dating to the 1700s and 1800s and the ruins of an iron and stone gate.

$ All Ages (daylight only recommended) Family: Moderate
Iron and stone gate ruins at Grandview Cemetery in Hardin County Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Grandview Cemetery

Elizabethtown, KY

Grandview Cemetery — also called Kasey's Cemetery and known locally as the 'Gates of Hell' — is a small abandoned eighteenth- and nineteenth-century burying ground in a wooded clearing west of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. The cemetery contains stones from the 1700s and 1800s and the partial ruins of an iron-and-stone gate. It is best understood as a regional folklore site with limited verifiable history.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Ashland — 2

The front entrance of Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital near Ashland, Kentucky, the Franciscan-founded 1953 facility closed in 2020.
Asylum / Hospital

Bellefonte Hospital

Ashland, KY

Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital was a Catholic acute-care hospital founded in 1953 by the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor near Ashland, Kentucky. It served eastern Kentucky for nearly seven decades before Bon Secours Mercy Health closed inpatient operations in April 2020. The building has since been repurposed as a behavioral health and addiction recovery center.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The 1931 Paramount Arts Center theater facade on Winchester Avenue in Ashland, Kentucky
Theater / Performance Venue

Paramount Arts Center

Ashland, KY

The Paramount Arts Center opened September 5, 1931 in Ashland, Kentucky as one of the first movie palaces purpose-built for sound film. Designed by Rapp and Rapp, the theater closed in 1971 and was rescued from demolition by the Greater Ashland Foundation, reopening as a performing-arts center in 1972.

$$ All Ages (varies by show) Family: High

Franklin — 2

The eight-sided antebellum Octagon Hall museum in Franklin, Kentucky
Museum / Historical Site

Octagon Hall Museum

Franklin, KY

Andrew Jackson Caldwell laid the foundation of Octagon Hall in 1847, completing the distinctive eight-sided brick residence by approximately 1860. Built on 300 acres in Franklin, Kentucky, it served as a hospital for both Confederate and Union soldiers during the Civil War and as a hiding place for retreating Confederate troops. The Octagon Hall Foundation acquired the site in 2001 and operates it as a museum and investigation venue.

$$$ 18+ for all paranormal events Family: Low
The 1847 octagonal antebellum house known as Octagon Hall in Franklin, Kentucky
Museum / Historical Site

Octagon Hall

Franklin, KY

Octagon Hall is an 1847 octagonal antebellum house in Franklin, Kentucky, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is one of two surviving octagonal structures in Kentucky and operated during the Civil War as a hospital for soldiers of both sides and a hideout for Confederate troops. Today it functions as a museum.

$$ All Ages for daytime tours; minimum age applies for paranormal investigations Family: Moderate

Marion — 2

A narrow gravel road through heavy woods in rural Crittenden County, Kentucky, with two small family cemeteries set among the trees
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Baker Hollow Road Cemetery

Marion, KY

Baker Hollow Road Cemetery is the local name for two small rural cemeteries known collectively as the Baker-Phillips Cemetery, located off Baker Church Road south of Morganfield in Crittenden County, Kentucky. The site is documented in regional genealogical records.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
The fenced grave of Mary Evelyn Ford at Pilot Knob Cemetery in Crittenden County, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Pilot Knob Cemetery (Witch Child Grave)

Marion, KY

Pilot Knob Cemetery in Crittenden County, Kentucky contains the grave of five-year-old Mary Evelyn Ford, who died May 31, 1915 of peritonitis. Her grave is the focus of a regional Kentucky legend, the Witch Child of Pilot's Knob, which has been thoroughly debunked by genealogical research.

$ All Ages (respect cemetery rules) Family: Moderate

Paducah — 2

Old German Catholic cemetery beside St. John the Evangelist Church near Lone Oak, Paducah, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

German Cemetery (St. John the Evangelist)

Paducah, KY

St. John the Evangelist parish near Lone Oak in Paducah was founded in 1839 by German Catholic immigrants who had settled in western Kentucky, which is why its burial ground is locally known as the 'German Cemetery.' The first log church was raised about 1849 and replaced by a frame structure in 1869. The cemetery beside the church remains in use.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Historic Oak Grove Cemetery in Paducah, Kentucky, resting place of Della Barnes
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Oak Grove Cemetery

Paducah, KY

Oak Grove Cemetery, established in 1847, is Paducah's historic municipal cemetery in McCracken County, with more than 33,000 burials. Its most famous resident is Della Robinson Barnes (1874–1897), youngest daughter of city councilman George F. Barnes, who died at age 22 of accidental morphine poisoning. Her father commissioned a life-size Italian-carved memorial statue that has since been heavily vandalized.

$ All Ages Family: High

Paintsville — 2

Sandstone facade of Mayo Memorial United Methodist Church in Paintsville, Kentucky, a 1909 Italianate church funded by coal magnate John C.C. Mayo with an Andrew Carnegie pipe organ.
Haunted House / Historic Home

Mayo Memorial United Methodist Church

Paintsville, KY

Mayo Memorial United Methodist Church at 325 Third Street in Paintsville, Kentucky, was constructed beginning in 1908 at the direction of coal millionaire John C.C. Mayo. Built from native sandstone quarried at the Mayo family farm across Paint Creek and transported by aerial tram, the church features Italian-imported stained glass windows and an organ donated by Andrew Carnegie. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1989.

$ All Ages Family: High
Distant view of the three-story 1912 Mayo Mansion in Paintsville, Kentucky, designed by Herman Geisky for coal magnate John C.C. Mayo, now housing Our Lady of the Mountains School.
Museum / Historical Site

Mayo Mansion

Paintsville, KY

Mayo Mansion at 405 Third Street in Paintsville, Kentucky, was built between 1905 and December 1912 for coal millionaire John Caldwell Calhoun Mayo and his wife Alice Jane Meek. The three-story, 43-room mansion cost $250,000 to construct. After Mayo's death in 1914, Alice donated the property to Sandy Valley Seminary. In 1945, the Sisters of Divine Providence established Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic School in the building, which continues to occupy it today.

$ All Ages Family: High

Pippa Passes — 2

Buildings on the campus of Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, United States. Photo is taken at the western end (?) of the campus, from a parking lot along Spruce Pine Road (Kentucky Route 1697).
Other Dark Tourism Site

Alice Lloyd College

Pippa Passes, KY

Alice Lloyd College is mountain college in Appalachia. Multiple buildings on campus reported to have paranormal activity.

$ Campus Community Family: High

Richmond — 2

Keene Hall, the 16-story dormitory tower at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, lit red, white and blue with an American flag during a 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb event
Other Dark Tourism Site

Keene Hall 16th Floor

Richmond, KY

Keene Hall is a 16-story, 1969-built residence hall on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. It houses roughly 582 students across 308 rooms and reopened in August 2024 following an extensive renovation. The hall is named for William L. Keene, a longtime English professor who retired in 1965 after 39 years on the EKU faculty.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate
Main east elevation of Whitehall, the Italianate brick mansion of abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay on Clay Lane in Richmond, Kentucky, documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey
Haunted House / Historic Home

White Hall State Historic Site

Richmond, KY

White Hall in Richmond, Kentucky began in 1798-1799 as Clermont, the Federal-style home of Green Clay. His son, abolitionist publisher and diplomat Cassius Marcellus Clay, dramatically expanded it into a 44-room Italianate mansion in the 1860s. The Commonwealth of Kentucky acquired the home in 1968 and operates it as a state historic site.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Annville — 1

Rural Kentucky cemetery visible from highway at night in Jackson County
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Hwy 577

Annville, KY

Annville is a small unincorporated community in Jackson County, Kentucky, in the eastern Cumberland Plateau region. The graveyard off Hwy 577 is a rural cemetery typical of Appalachian communities, where family plots and small denominational burying grounds were established throughout the nineteenth century as settlement expanded into the region's hollows.

$ All Ages Family: High

Barbourville — 1

Warfield Cemetery near Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Warfield Cemetery

Barbourville, KY

Warfield Cemetery is a rural burial ground in Knox County, Kentucky, located west of Barbourville near Walker Memorial Park off Highway 459. Its tombstones date from the late 1800s to the present. The cemetery has no fence or gate and is reached by a small footbridge, and it is documented in Knox County cemetery records and on Find a Grave.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bardstown — 1

1819 limestone facade of Jailer's Inn Bed and Breakfast at 111 W Stephen Foster Ave, Bardstown, Kentucky
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Jailer's Inn Bed and Breakfast

Bardstown, KY

The Nelson County Jail property housed prisoners from 1797 until the facility's closure in 1987, making it the oldest continuously operating jail complex in Kentucky. The front limestone building was constructed in 1819 with walls 30 inches thick, and the structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Jailer's Inn Bed and Breakfast has operated in the renovated front jail since the late 1980s.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Berea — 1

Historic Boone Tavern Hotel exterior on the Berea College campus in Berea Kentucky
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Berea College

Berea, KY

Boone Tavern Hotel built 1908 on Berea College campus. Sub-basement dug in 1940s houses offices and laundry. Underground Railroad connection is folkloric rather than historically verified.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bowling Green — 1

Historic Old Richardsville Road Bridge spanning the Barren River in Warren County, Kentucky
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Old Richardsville Road Bridge

Bowling Green, KY

The Old Richardsville Road Bridge is a rare three-span cast and wrought-iron bowstring truss structure built between 1860-1889 by the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio. It crosses the Barren River in Warren County and was inducted into the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Bradfordsville — 1

The North Rolling Fork River running through Bradfordsville, Kentucky in Marion County
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Outdoor / Natural Site

North Rolling Fork River

Bradfordsville, KY

The North Rolling Fork River flows through Marion County and runs parallel to the main streets of Bradfordsville, Kentucky. Bradfordsville is a small community at the confluence of the North and South Forks of the Rolling Fork River, historically sustained by agriculture and the river corridor. In the summer of 1965, a community-wide acoustic anomaly drew children and adults to the riverbank over multiple days.

$ All Ages Family: High

Busy — 1

Campbell Cemetery and Coffin Rock on Forked Mouth Road, Perry County, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Coffin Rock at Campbell Cemetery

Busy, KY

Campbell Cemetery is a rural burial ground on Forked Mouth Road in the Busy community of Perry County, in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Within the cemetery area is a large stone known locally as Coffin Rock. The cemetery is recorded in Find a Grave's Kentucky listings; the surrounding hollow is steep and remote.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Campbellsville — 1

Brick Administration Building at Campbellsville University in Kentucky
Museum / Historical Site

Campbellsville University - Fine Arts Building

Campbellsville, KY

The Fine Arts Building at Campbellsville University originated as a Catholic hospital facility, later converted to academic use. The building now houses the university's School of Art and serves as a center for creative instruction on the 80-acre main campus in central Kentucky.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Carlisle — 1

1928 granite obelisk monument at Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park Kentucky
Battlefield / Military Site

Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park

Carlisle, KY

Blue Licks served as a natural mineral spring and salt lick along the Licking River before hosting the Battle of Blue Licks on August 19, 1782. This Revolutionary War engagement resulted in the deaths of approximately 70 Kentucky settlers, including militia leader Stephen Trigg and Daniel Boone's son Israel.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Clermont — 1

Jim Beam American Stillhouse distillery exterior in Clermont Kentucky
Other Dark Tourism Site

Jim Beam Distillery

Clermont, KY

The James B. Beam Distilling Company traces its roots to 1795, when Jacob Beam sold his first barrel of whiskey in Kentucky. The Clermont facility was established by James Beam in 1933 following the repeal of Prohibition and now encompasses 32 warehouses holding more than half a million barrels across 500 acres — one of the most productive bourbon campuses in American history.

$$ 21+ for tastings; all ages for property Family: Moderate

Columbia — 1

COLUMBIA, Ky. -- U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy announced Jan. 29, 2020, USDA has invested over $55.3 million in four high-speed broadband infrastructure projects in rural Kentucky. These projects, part of the first round of USDA’s ReCon
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Lindsey Wilson College

Columbia, KY

Lindsey Wilson College was founded in January 1903 as Lindsey Wilson Training School by the Louisville Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The school was named in memory of Lindsey Wilson, the deceased nephew and stepson of Mrs. Catherine Wilson of Louisville, who contributed $6,000 toward the first building. The institution became Lindsey Wilson University in July 2025.

$ All Ages Family: High

Corbin — 1

Cumberland Falls 68-foot waterfall on the Cumberland River in Kentucky
Outdoor / Natural Site

Cumberland Falls State Resort Park

Corbin, KY

Cumberland Falls, a 68-foot waterfall on the Cumberland River in southern Kentucky, has been protected as a state resort park since 1930. The DuPont Lodge, named for the family that donated funds for its preservation after a controversial sale attempt, has anchored the park's visitor experience for nearly a century. The park is one of only two locations in the Western Hemisphere where a moonbow — a nighttime rainbow generated by moonlight through mist — can be reliably observed.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Evarts — 1

Frenchburg — 1

A sandstone outcrop in the eastern Kentucky hills near Frenchburg.
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Carrington Rock

Frenchburg, KY

Frenchburg, Kentucky, sits in Menifee County in the eastern Kentucky knobs. The area saw Civil War activity in 1861 around McCormack's Gap as part of the Big Sandy Expedition, but no documented battlefield engagement has been recorded at Carrington Rock specifically.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Glasgow — 1

A narrow, secluded rural bridge crossing Beaver Creek through heavy overgrowth north of Glasgow in Barren County, Kentucky
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Slash Bridge

Glasgow, KY

Slash Bridge is a small bridge carrying Old Munfordville Road across Beaver Creek in rural Barren County, Kentucky, between Glasgow and Cave City. The original crossing was a wooden covered bridge that was replaced after the Civil War by a steel-frame structure with a wooden deck. The crossing is documented in local Barren County folklore collections.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Grayson — 1

Wooded Gollihue Hollow near Grayson, Carter County, Kentucky
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Gollihue Hollow (Johns Run)

Grayson, KY

Gollihue Hollow is a wooded hollow in Carter County, eastern Kentucky, near Grayson and the community of Hitchins, in the Johns Run drainage. The Gollihue family name is well established in the area, attached to local cemeteries documented in Carter County records. The hollow is rural hunting and woodland country.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Hardburly — 1

Coal with fault slickenside (SDSMT 868, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Museum of Geology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA) Faults are quite common in orogenic belts. Faults are defined as fractures in rocks along which differential displacement has occurred. Dip-slip faults are those in
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Coal Spring

Hardburly, KY

Hardburly is a coal camp community in Perry County, Kentucky, located on Jakes Branch (also spelled Jake Fork) approximately six miles northeast of Hazard. The Hardy-Burlingham Mining Company established the camp around 1918, and at its peak the operation employed up to 700 underground miners and handled 4,000 tons of coal daily. The community's name derived from the company name.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Harrodsburg — 1

Trustees House at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Harrodsburg Kentucky, brick Shaker building
Museum / Historical Site

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Harrodsburg, KY

Shaker missionaries arrived in central Kentucky in 1805 and established a farming community called Pleasant Hill approximately 25 miles southwest of Lexington. At its peak in the 1820s, the community comprised several hundred Believers across 3,000 acres of rolling Bluegrass farmland. The village declined through the latter half of the 19th century and closed in 1910. Restoration began in 1961, and today Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill is the largest restored Shaker village in the United States, with 34 original Shaker buildings intact.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Hazard — 1

A railroad tunnel portal cut through an Appalachian ridge near Napfor and Hazard, Kentucky, with cemeteries on the hill above
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Tunnel Hill (Napfor Twin Tunnels)

Hazard, KY

Tunnel Hill is a pair of active railroad tunnels — the 'twin tunnels' — on the back roads of the Napfor community near Hazard in Perry County, eastern Kentucky, with two cemeteries on the ridge directly above. The site is documented as a regional legend-tripping destination by the Unusual Kentucky folklore project and has been the subject of local paranormal investigations.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Lebanon — 1

Saint Ivos Cemetery near Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Saint Ivos Cemetery

Lebanon, KY

Saint Ivos Cemetery is a rural cemetery on Saint Ivos Road near Lebanon, the county seat of Marion County in the rolling farmland of central Kentucky's Holy Land region, an area long associated with early Catholic settlement. The cemetery is documented on Find a Grave among the cemeteries of Lebanon and Marion County.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Lynch — 1

Houses at the western end of First Street, seen from Pirate Way, in Lynch, Kentucky, United States. These houses are part of the Lynch Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Outdoor / Natural Site

Lynch Mountain Road

Lynch, KY

Lynch Mountain Road is located in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the heart of the eastern Kentucky coalfields. The Lynch area was developed as a coal company town by U.S. Steel's United States Coal and Coke Company beginning in 1917, one of the largest such developments in Appalachian history. The surrounding mountain roads carry the legacy of intense labor conflict during the Harlan County War of the 1930s.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Madisonville — 1

Damaged stone angel grave marker at Grapevine Cemetery in Madisonville, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Grapevine Cemetery

Madisonville, KY

Grapevine Cemetery was established around September 21, 1880, in the Madisonville area of western Kentucky. The cemetery is a working historic burial ground in Hopkins County. Its most-photographed monument is a damaged stone angel that local folklore associates with a number of regional legends.

$ All Ages (daylight only) Family: Moderate

Maysville — 1

Hayswood Hospital exterior in Maysville, Kentucky
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Asylum / Hospital

Hayswood Hospital

Maysville, KY

Hayswood Hospital opened in Maysville, Kentucky in 1915 as Hayswood Seminary, was renamed Hayswood Hospital in 1923, served Mason County and surrounding communities for six decades, and has stood abandoned since closing in 1983.

$ All Ages (exterior viewing only) Family: Moderate

Middlesboro — 1

City park near Greenwood Road in Middlesboro, Kentucky, inside the Middlesboro meteor impact crater
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Middlesboro Park, near Greenwood Rd.

Middlesboro, KY

Middlesboro, Kentucky occupies the floor of an ancient meteor impact crater — one of only a few confirmed impact structures in the eastern United States, created roughly 300-400 million years ago. The city was developed in the 1890s as an industrial center by British investors who chose the site for its circular topography and proximity to Cumberland Gap. The park near Greenwood Road is a standard city park within this geologically unusual setting.

$ All Ages Family: High

Morehead — 1

Nine-story Nunn Hall residence at Morehead State University surrounded by the Daniel Boone National Forest
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Other Dark Tourism Site

Morehead State University — Nunn Hall

Morehead, KY

Nunn Hall at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, was built in 1969 and named for Beula Nunn, wife of Governor Louie B. Nunn. The nine-story, 400-bed co-ed dormitory sits at the rear of the main campus, which was established in 1887 as Morehead Normal School. Morehead State is the only public university in the country located within a national forest — the Daniel Boone National Forest.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Oak Grove — 1

A rural Carter Road bridge over a wooded creek near Oak Grove, Kentucky, the local 'Ghost Bridge'
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Ghost Bridge (Carter Road Bridge)

Oak Grove, KY

Ghost Bridge is the local name for a rural bridge on Carter Road near Oak Grove, Kentucky, in Christian County, just outside the gates of Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee line. The crossing has been a regional legend-tripping site for decades and was the title location and filming site of the 2024 locally produced horror film 'Ghost Bridge.'

$ All Ages Family: Low

Olive Hill — 1

Foggy hilltop cemetery on a rural road near Olive Hill, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Bethel Hill Cemetery

Olive Hill, KY

Bethel Hill Cemetery is a rural burial ground in Carter County, near Olive Hill in eastern Kentucky. The community of Olive Hill grew up around Tygarts Creek beginning in the late 1700s and relocated to the railroad in 1882, and small hilltop cemeteries like Bethel served the surrounding farm families. The cemetery is documented in regional burial records and remains in use.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Owensboro — 1

Ben Hawes State Park wooded area in Owensboro, Kentucky
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Outdoor / Natural Site

Ben Hawes State Park

Owensboro, KY

Ben Hawes State Park encompasses woodland in Owensboro area. Local folklore references 18th century witch trial execution within park lands.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Perry Park — 1

Glenwood Hall, the antebellum manor house at the center of Perry Park Golf Resort in Owen County, Kentucky
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Haunted Hotel / Inn

Perry Park Golf Resort and Glenwood Hall

Perry Park, KY

Perry Park sits on land originally hunted by Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and Miami peoples, settled in the early 1800s by Revolutionary War veteran Benjamin Perry and his family. Glenwood Hall, the manor house built between 1830 and 1850, became the clubhouse of Glenwood Hall Golf and Country Club in 1969 and remains in use today as a bed and breakfast and dining hall.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Prestonsburg — 1

Providence — 1

Wynn Cemetery near Providence, Webster County, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Wynn Cemetery

Providence, KY

Wynn Cemetery is a rural burial ground on Jim Wilson Road near Providence in Webster County, western Kentucky. It is cataloged in Kentucky cemetery registries and on Find a Grave. It contains two distinctive above-ground graves sealed with concrete slabs bearing the name HARVEY, which sit at the center of the cemetery's witch folklore.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Russellville — 1

The Sexton House, a Second Empire home with a tower at Maple Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Kentucky
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Haunted House / Historic Home

The Sexton House

Russellville, KY

The Sexton House is a c.1870 brick house with a distinctive mansard-roofed tower standing at the edge of Maple Grove Cemetery in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky. It was built as the residence of the cemetery's sexton (caretaker); local history credits its construction to Owen Mosley, who served as sexton of Maple Grove. The house remains a private residence.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Salyersville — 1

Rural cemetery in the Appalachian hollows of Magoffin County, Kentucky
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Mash Fork Cemetery

Salyersville, KY

Mash Fork Cemetery sits in Magoffin County near Salyersville, a rural community in eastern Kentucky's Appalachian foothills. The Mash Fork community and its associated burial ground are documented in Magoffin County Historical Society cemetery records, which catalog graves along Mash Fork, Mine Fork, and nearby hollows. Settlement of the area dates to the early nineteenth century.

$ All Ages Family: High

Scottsville — 1

31E Bridge near Scottsville, Kentucky
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Outdoor / Natural Site

31E Bridge

Scottsville, KY

Highway 31E bridge near Scottsville carries traffic across waterways. Local folklore references older bridge structure that failed catastrophically.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Union — 1

A WOOLY MAMMOTH STUCK IN THE SOFT EARTH
Outdoor / Natural Site

Big Bone Lick State Historic Site

Union, KY

Big Bone Lick, designated the birthplace of American vertebrate paleontology, has hosted human activity for millennia. Native Americans first discovered the site; European explorers arrived in 1739. Thomas Jefferson commissioned the first organized fossil excavations in 1807 under William Clark's direction, recovering over 300 paleontological specimens.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Vancleve — 1

Frozen Creek valley near Vancleve, Breathitt County, Kentucky
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True Crime Site

Frozen Creek Flood Site

Vancleve, KY

Frozen Creek is a stream and rural community in northern Breathitt County, Kentucky, near Vancleve. Overnight on July 4-5, 1939, a cloudburst dropped up to nine inches of rain and sent a wall of water down the narrow valley, killing 52 people in Breathitt County (79 across 21 eastern Kentucky counties). The flood completely destroyed the Kentucky Mountain Bible Institute and swept away dozens of homes and barns.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

West Point — 1

Ditto House Inn at 204 West Elm Street in West Point, Kentucky — Federal-style 1823 brick inn overlooking the Ohio River
Haunted Hotel / Inn

Ditto House Inn

West Point, KY

The Ditto House at 204 West Elm Street in West Point, Kentucky was constructed in 1823 by Abraham Ditto and his brother-in-law Samuel Lansdale as an inn serving Ohio River travelers. During the Civil War, the 9th Michigan Infantry converted the building into a field hospital that operated for approximately three years. The structure was restored in 1985 as a bed and breakfast.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Whitley City — 1

A rural hilltop cemetery off US 27 near Whitley City in McCreary County, Kentucky, the surviving burial ground of the Barren Fork coal camp
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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Barren Fork Cemetery

Whitley City, KY

Barren Fork Cemetery is an active hilltop burial ground off US 27 near Whitley City in McCreary County, Kentucky, behind the Stearns Ranger District office. It is the most visible surviving element of the Barren Fork coal camp, a company town that operated from 1879 until the mid-1930s. The cemetery has been transcribed by the McCreary County KYGenWeb project, with burials reaching from the late nineteenth century to the present.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Winchester — 1

Romanesque Revival brick facade of the former Guerrant Mission Clinic, now the Bluegrass Heritage Museum, at 217 South Main Street in Winchester, Kentucky
Museum / Historical Site

Bluegrass Heritage Museum

Winchester, KY

Built in 1887 by Dr. Ishmael as a medical facility, the Romanesque Revival structure became the Guerrant Clinic and Hospital in 1927. It operated as a medical institution until 1971, performing surgeries and serving as a hospital facility for Central Kentucky for nearly a century.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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