Louisville Arts and Entertainment
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- Actors Theatre (See also Theater in Kentucky)
- Caesars Indiana (Elizabeth, Indiana)
- Fourth Street Live!, a downtown entertainment and shopping complex
- The Kentucky Center
- The Kentucky Theater
- The Louisville Palace
- Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
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Louisville Annual Festivals and Events
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- Adam Matthews Balloon Festival
- Corn Island Storytelling Festival
- Gaslight Festival (Jeffersontown), annual event held in September
- Germanic heritage festivals: Strassenfest in August and Oktoberfest in October.
- Kentucky Bourbon Festival (Bardstown)
- Kentucky Derby Festival, Kentucky's largest single annual event.
- Kentucky Shakespeare Festival
- Kentucky State Fair, annual 10-day event held in August at the Kentucky Exposition Center, next to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
- Kentuckiana Pride Festival [2], annual events in June in support of LGBT pride and rights.
- Lebowski Fest, a festival for fans of the movie, The Big Lebowski.
- St. James Court Art Show
- Starlight Strawberry Festival (Starlight, Indiana), annual event held during Memorial Day weekend.
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Louisville Historic Buildings
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- Belle of Louisville, the oldest Mississippi-style steamboat in operation on the inland waterways of the U.S. (Built 1914-1915 in Pittsburgh for service in Memphis as the Idlewild, renamed Avalon in 1948, purchased by Jefferson County and renamed Belle of Louisville in 1962.)
- Farmington Historic Home
- Fort Knox, including the U.S. Bullion Depository and Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor (Hardin County)
- The Galt House — the famous hotel.
- Historic Locust Grove farm, home of George Rogers Clark
- My Old Kentucky Home State Park (Bardstown), featuring the Federal Hill mansion (inspiration for Stephen Foster's My Old Kentucky Home) and Stephen Foster, The Musical [3].
- Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing [4]
- Seelbach and Brown hotels
- Thomas Edison House [5]
- Vogue Theater, a movie theater in St. Matthews closed down in 1998, known for showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show for 25 years. Its sign is being refurbished as a historical landmark.
- Waverly Hills Sanatorium
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Louisville Museums
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- Callahan Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
- Frazier Historical Arms Museum — features historical war weaponry, especially focusing on British and U.S. conflicts
- Howard Steamboat Museum [6] (Jeffersonville, Indiana)
- Kentucky Derby Museum [7]
- Louisville Science Center — features an IMAX theater
- Louisville Slugger Museum
- Muhammad Ali Center
- Old Bardstown Village / Civil War Museum of the Western Theater [8] (Bardstown)
- Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor
- Speed Art Museum
- Louisville also has several important genealogical collections at The Filson Historical Society, the Sons of the American Revolution national library and the Louisville Free Public Library.
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Louisville Sports Attractions
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- Churchill Downs thoroughbred racetrack and the Kentucky Derby Museum
- Louisville Extreme Park
- Louisville Slugger Museum
- Muhammad Ali Center
- Valhalla Golf Club, designed by professional golfer Jack Nicklaus
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Louisville Outdoor Attractions and Parks
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- Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (Bullitt County)
- Bridges to the Past (Radcliff)
- Cave Hill Cemetery and Arboretum
- Central Park
- Cherokee Park
- E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park
- Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area (Clarksville, Indiana), featuring the oldest exposed Devonian fossil beds in the United States
- Iroquois Park — features a locally popular amphitheater.
- Jefferson Memorial Forest, in southwest Louisville, the largest municipal urban forest in the United States.
- Levee Bike Trail
- Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy
- Louisville Waterfront Park and Belvedere — features annual Thunder Over Louisville fireworks and air show during the Kentucky Derby Festival.
- Louisville Zoo
- Otter Creek Park (Brandenburg
- Riverwalk Trail
- Seneca Park
- Shawnee Park
- Tioga Falls Hiking Trail [11] (Radcliff)
- Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
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