Kentucky
261 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Bluegrass Music, The High, Lonesome Sound
- Bourbon, Limestone Water, and the Angel's Share
- Coal, Appalachia, and the Harlan County Mine Wars
- Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
- First West of the Appalachians, Statehood, Seventeen Ninety-Two
- The Dark and Bloody Ground
- The Feuding Mountains, Hatfield-McCoy and Beyond
- The Land Itself, Karst, Cave Country, and the Shape of Kentucky
- The Ohio River and the Underground Railroad
- The Thoroughbred and Bluegrass Horse Country
- Tobacco and the Black Patch Wars
- Two Presidents, One Commonwealth, Lincoln and Davis
Near Bardstown
- Bardstown: Bourbon Capital of the World
- Bardstown: Cathedral City, Bourbon Town, Crossroads
- Bragg's Army Comes to Bardstown
- Federal Hill: The House Behind the State Song
- Heaven Hill and the Fire of Ninety-Six
- Lebanon Junction: Born Where the Tracks Split
- Spalding Hall: Seminary, Hospital, Whiskey Museum
- The First Cathedral West of the Mountains
- The First Two-Story Brick Church West of the Appalachians
- The Talbott Tavern: The West's Oldest Stagecoach Stop
- Thomas Lincoln and the Nelson County Roots
- Thomas Merton's Dissent, Written from a Monastery
Near Bowling Green
Near Evansville
Near Lexington
- Adolph Rupp, the Baron, and the Long Reckoning
- African Cemetery No. 2
- Asbury College, Wilmore
- Barbaro's Birthplace
- Bluegrass Scenic Railroad: Through the Horse Farms to the Kentucky River
- Boone Station
- Bourbon, Water, and the Slow Alchemy of the Limestone Belt
- Bryan Station
- Bryan Station: The Last Raid on Kentucky
- Camp Nelson: Freedom's Price in Kentucky
- Cheapside: The Market at the Heart of the City
- Claiborne Farm: Where Champions Come to Rest
- Elmendorf Farm: The Bluegrass Estate That Fed the World's Racetracks
- Georgetown, Kentucky: The Baptist Preacher Who May Have Invented Bourbon
- Hemp, Tobacco, and the Economy That Built Antebellum Lexington
- Henry Clay and the Art of the Possible
- Isaac Murphy: The Greatest Jockey Who Ever Rode
- John Hunt Morgan and Kentucky's Civil War Within a War
- Keeneland and the Thoroughbred Industry
- Mary Todd and the Town That Made Her
- Midway: The Town the Railroad Built
- Nicholasville: Gateway to Camp Nelson
- Old Friends Equine
- Pleasant Green Baptist Church and the Geography of Black Lexington
- Royal Spring Park
- Spindletop Hall
- The Bluegrass Beneath Your Feet
- The Naming of Lexington — June Four, Seventeen Seventy-Five
- The Shared Hunting Ground
- The Will Lockett Case: The National Guard Between a Man and a Mob
- Transylvania University: The First College West of the Alleghenies
- Versailles: Where James Crow Revolutionized Bourbon
- Waveland: Daniel Boone's Great-Grandnephew and His Greek Revival Estate
- White Hall: Cassius Clay's Battlefield at Home
- Winchester Downtown Commercial District
- Winchester, Kentucky: Baker's Spring Becomes a City
Near Louisville
- Anne Braden and the House That Was Bombed
- Bashford Manor
- Belle of Louisville
- Bloody Monday, 1855
- Bourbon and the Labor It Was Built On
- Breonna Taylor
- Buchanan v. Warley: The Test Case They Built on Purpose
- Bud Hillerich and the Bat He Wasn't Supposed to Make
- Butchertown, Louisville
- Cassius Clay and the Stolen Bicycle
- Cave Hill Cemetery
- Cherokee Triangle, Louisville
- Colonel Sanders: The Road That Made Him, and the Road That Ended It
- Crestwood, Kentucky
- Farmington and the Visitor Who Kept Thinking About It
- George Warren Fuller, Who Made Water Safe
- Historic Locust Grove
- Jeffersontown, Kentucky
- Middletown, Kentucky
- No Housing, No Derby: The Open Housing Marches of 1967
- Old Louisville and Edison's First Big Show
- Oliver Lewis, Aristides, and the Jockeys Who Were Erased
- Oxmoor Farm: Louisville's Oldest Working Farm
- Portland and the Canal That Ate Its Reason for Being
- Russell and the West End: A Geography of Exclusion
- Shepherdsville: Salt, River, and the Wilderness Trail
- Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- The 1937 Flood and Bourke-White's Billboard
- The 1968 Uprising
- The Ali Center: What He Wanted It to Be
- The Belle of Louisville
- The Belle of Louisville: Oldest Steamboat Still Breathing Steam
- The Champ's War
- The City Thomas Jefferson Drew
- The Falls That Made the City
- The Shawnee, Cherokee, and the Myth of the Dark and Bloody Ground
- Thomas Merton at Fourth and Walnut
- U.S. Marine Hospital
- Whiskey Row: A Hundred Years of Bourbon and What Broke It
- Wolf Pen Corridor: Jefferson County's Third Settlement
Near Mammoth Cave
- Battle of Munfordville
- Battle of Rowlett's Station
- Bonnieville: The Town That Voted Itself Out of Existence
- Cave City: Gateway to the Cave Wars
- Dr. Croghan's Patients and the Huts That Remain
- Floyd Collins and Sand Cave
- Frozen Niagara and the Gypsum Flowers
- How a National Park Was Made
- Last Recorded Indian Raid in Kentucky
- Lost John and the Fallen Boulder
- Munfordville: The Bridge Bragg Had to Have
- Park City: The Junction That Sent Tourists to the Cave
- Saltpeter, Gunpowder, and the War the Cave Armed
- Saltpeter, War, and Enslaved Labor
- Stephen Bishop and the Dark Country He Named
- Stephen Bishop, Master of the Cave
- The First Explorers, Thousands of Years Ago
- The Green River and Cave Country
- The Historic Entrance and the Bear Legend
- The Hospital Inside the Cave
- The Kentucky Cave Wars
- The Longest Cave on Earth
Near Metropolis
Along the way
- Abner Gaines House, Walton
- Adsmore, A House Bequeathed Whole
- Augusta, Kentucky: Raiders and Runaways
- Battle of Cynthiana: Morgan's Last Ride
- Benjamin Helm Bristow, Whiskey Ring Prosecutor
- Benton: Where Shape-Note Singers Have Gathered Since 1884
- Berea College: The School That Defied Kentucky
- Berea, Kentucky
- Blue Licks Battlefield
- Boone Tavern
- Burnside: Where Burnside Began His Tennessee Push
- Cable Television from the Top of Kentucky
- Cadiz: Gateway to the Land Between the Lakes
- Calvert City, Kentucky
- Calvert City: TVA's Industrial Windfall
- Camp Dick Robinson: The First Union Camp South of the Ohio
- Campbellsburg, Kentucky
- Casey County, Kentucky
- Castle on the Cumberland
- Catlettsburg: Where the Rivers Made a Town
- Clarkson: Railroad Stop and Beekeeping Capital
- Cloverport: Lincoln's River Crossing
- Corbin, Kentucky
- Corner in Celebrities: Frankfort's River Street of Notables
- Crittenden, Kentucky: Pin Hook to Stagecoach Stop
- Cynthiana: Named for Two Sisters
- Daniel Boone: The Man and the Myth That Swallowed Him
- Daniel Boone's Trail
- Dawson Springs: Healing Waters and a Night of Destruction
- Dover, Kentucky: A Virginia Merchant's River Town
- Eddyville, Kentucky
- Eddyville, The Castle on the Cumberland
- Edgington Mound: Three Thousand Years of the Dead
- Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- Erlanger, Kentucky
- Erlanger, Kentucky
- Florence, Kentucky
- Florence, Kentucky
- Fort Jefferson: Virginia's Farthest-West Outpost
- Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
- Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
- Fort Twitty
- Fort Wright, Kentucky
- Four Roses: The Legend Beneath the Spanish Towers
- Fulton Burying Ground
- Fulton, Kentucky: Banana Capital of the Nation
- Glencoe, Kentucky
- Grant Memorial Bridge and the Brookville Builders
- Greenville: Coal Country and John Prine's Paradise
- Hanson, Kentucky: Tobacco Town Built by an Engineer
- Harland Sanders Café and Museum
- Hartford: Where Ohio County Began
- Ingalls Building, The World's First Concrete Skyscraper
- Jenkins, Kentucky , Coal Town on the Music Highway
- John Parker: The Man Who Rowed into Slave Territory
- Kentucky Dam
- Kentucky Dam: The New Deal's Largest Lock
- Kentucky Folk Art Center
- Kentucky Speedway: The Track That Sued NASCAR
- Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Kuttawa, Kentucky
- Kuttawa: The Town That Moved for a Lake
- Leitchfield: The Courthouse the Confederates Burned
- Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park
- Linden Grove Cemetery, Covington
- Livingston, Kentucky
- Madison County, Kentucky
- Madisonville, Coal Country County Seat
- Mayfield: A Name From a Creek, a Legend, and a Tornado
- Mayo Mansion , Paintsville's Coal Baron Palace
- Morehead State University: A Light to the Mountains
- Mount Olivet: Seat of Kentucky's Smallest County
- Mount Sterling: Scotland in Kentucky
- Mount Vernon, Kentucky
- Newport Barracks
- Nortonville, Kentucky: Railroad Dreams and Coal Reality
- Oak Grove, Kentucky
- Owensboro: Where Mutton Smoke Meets Bluegrass
- Owingsville: Iron, Springs, and a County Seat
- Porkopolis: The City That Ran on Hogs
- Portsmouth: The Floodwall and the Opioid Ground Zero
- Princeton: The Trail of Tears Camped Here, Then the Night Riders Came
- Red River Gorge: A Sandstone Canyon the Developers Never Got
- Renfro Valley, Kentucky
- Richmond, Kentucky
- Rockcastle County, Kentucky
- Roebling's Bridge: The Prototype
- Rome, Ohio: The River Town That Founded Two Cities
- Sanders, Kentucky
- Sardis: On the Mason-Robertson County Line
- Senator William Deboe
- Shelbyville: Kentucky's Third County Seat
- Slaughters, Kentucky: Won in a Card Game
- Sonora, Kentucky: A Name from Mexico
- Sparta, Kentucky
- St. Charles, Kentucky: Coal Country
- Stearns, Kentucky: The Last Lumber Baron's Company Town
- The 1829 Riots and the Wilberforce Colony
- The 1841 Riots: The Community That Held
- The Ark Encounter
- The Beast: Western Kentucky's Deadliest Tornado
- The Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire
- The Castle on the Cumberland
- The Eagle Troop: America's First Boy Scouts
- The Elizabethtown Cannonball
- The Majestic , Last American Showboat
- The Ohio as the Line
- The Ohio River: America's Interior Boundary
- The Red Stockings: The First Professional Season
- The Slave Pen: Only One Left Standing
- The Strange Procession That Never Moves
- The Wayne County Doughboy
- The West-Metcalfe House
- The Zollie Tree
- Town Spring: How Somerset Got Its Streets
- Tree Rings and the 1974 Tornado
- US 23 Country Music Highway , Eastern Kentucky
- Utopia, Ohio: The Perfect Society That Wasn't
- Vent Haven: The Retirement Home for a Thousand Dummies
- Walton, Kentucky
- Walton, Kentucky: Declaration Signer on the Turnpike
- Water Valley: An Illinois Central Station That Outlived Its Purpose
- Whitney Young's Birthplace: A Civil Rights Leader's Kentucky Roots
- Williamsburg, Kentucky
- Williamstown, Kentucky
- Wingo, Kentucky: The Station That Kept Its Name
- Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery