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Cave City, KY
Built in 1937, Wigwam Village No. 2 is one of the few surviving examples of America's once-widespread concrete tipi motel chain. Fifteen individual cone-shaped motel rooms surround a larger central structure, and travelers can still book an overnight stay.
Florence, KY
This operating motel has spent decades leaning into elaborate fantasy lodging, with rooms themed around caves, pirate ships, the 1950s, Venice, jungles and other over-the-top environments. A tropical indoor dome and novelty architecture make the property feel like a surviving piece of old roadside honeymoon-motel culture.
Newport, KY
Cast in 1998 and installed for the arrival of the year 2000, Newport's enormous World Peace Bell weighs roughly 66,000 pounds and is about 12 feet across. It was the world's largest functioning free-swinging bell when dedicated and remains an outsized downtown monument.
Louisville, KY
A 120-foot steel baseball bat leans against the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, modeled after a bat used by Babe Ruth. The enormous object weighs tens of thousands of pounds and functions as one of downtown Louisville's easiest-to-spot landmarks.
Franklin, KY
Franklin-Simpson High School welding students built the 24-foot "Cutting Edge of Simpson County" in 2021 after previously creating the town's giant fork. The rural sculpture park also contains other oversized student projects, including a space capsule and additional metal creations. Address: 4433 Blackjack Rd., Franklin, KY
Elizabethtown, KY
The Transit Authority of Central Kentucky turned its acronym—TACK—into a literal landmark by building an enormous pushpin outside its headquarters. Guinness World Records certified the approximately 21-foot-7-inch structure as the world's largest pin in 2024.
Radcliff, KY
Outside Red Hill Cutlery stands an enormous folding pocketknife with a roughly 20-foot handle and a 17-foot-plus blade. Built in 2019, the several-thousand-pound knife is theoretically functional but requires heavy equipment to open or close.
Owensboro, KY
This enormous sassafras at Frederica Street and Maple Avenue has a trunk circumference of roughly 21 feet and is believed to be several centuries old. Local lore says homeowner Grace Rash once confronted road crews with a shotgun to prevent the tree from being cut down during a highway-widening project.
Prestonsburg, KY
A gigantic seated Abraham Lincoln originally commissioned by disgraced attorney Eric C. Conn now overlooks Middle Creek National Battlefield. The statue was deliberately built slightly smaller than the Lincoln Memorial figure in Washington and was relocated to the battlefield in 2021 after Conn's fraud conviction. Address: 2968 KY-114, Prestonsburg, KY
Bardstown, KY
A roughly 60-foot stainless-steel crucifix rises above St. Thomas Cemetery south of Bardstown. Built in 1986, the unusually skeletal wire-frame figure of Jesus is visible above the cemetery and has long been promoted as one of the tallest crucifixes of its type.
