This is a list of notable visitor attractions and annual events in the Louisville metropolitan area.
- with many bands, held in May
- Adam Matthews Balloon Festival , held in September
- Corn Island Storytelling Festival {Link without Title} , held in September
- Forecastle Festival {Link without Title} , a co-mingling of music, art and activism, held in July
- Highland Renaissance Festival {Link without Title} ( Eminence ), held in June
- Humana Festival Of New American Plays , held in the Spring
- ), held in September
- Kentucky Art Car Weekend {Link without Title} , held in August
- Kentucky Bourbon Festival ( Bardstown )
- Kentucky Derby Festival , Kentucky 's largest single annual event; includes Thunder Over Louisville , Great Steamboat Race, Pegasus Parade and the Marathon/miniMarathon, and is held for two weeks from late April through early May
- Kentucky Shakespeare Festival , commonly called Shakespeare In The Park ; held in the Summer
- Kentucky State Fair , annual 10-day event held in August at the Kentucky Exposition Center , next to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom ; includes the World's Championship Horse Show {Link without Title}
- Kentuckiana Pride Festival {Link without Title} , series of events in June in support of LGBT pride and Rights
- Lebowski Fest
- Louisville Zombie Attack, where hundreds of locals dressed as zombies walk down Bardstown Road to a set location, held August 29 at 8:29 p.m.
- National Quartet Convention
- North American International Livestock Exposition , held in November
- Oktoberfest/Oktoberfeast Louisville, held in October
- St. James Court Art Show , one of the top-ranked shows of its kind in the country; held the first weekend of October
- St. Joseph Orphans Picnic, held the second Saturday in August
- Starlight Strawberry Festival ( Starlight, Indiana ), held during Memorial Day weekend
- WHAS Crusade For Children , fundraiser held over the first weekend in June
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- Basilica Of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral ( Bardstown ) — first Roman Catholic cathedral west of the Appalachian Mountains
- 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.)
- The Brennan House {Link without Title}
- Brown Hotel , where the Hot Brown was invented.
- Colgate Clock ( Clarksville, Indiana ) is the second largest clock in the world.
- Conrad-Caldwell House {Link without Title}
- Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site ( New Albany, Indiana ) is most noted for its annual Haunted House located in the mansion's carriage barn.
- Farmington Historic Home , the Thomas Jefferson -designed home of the Speed family, visited by Abraham Lincoln .
- The Filson Historical Society , a historical society and research library housed in the Ferguson Mansion, a Beaux-Arts style mansion built in 1906.
- Fort Duffield , a Civil War fort.
- Fort Knox , including the U.S. Bullion Depository and Patton Museum Of Cavalry And Armor ( Bullitt , Hardin and Meade Counties)
- Fort Nelson Park , located in the same spot as the second on-shore fort in Kentucky.
- Galt House , the famous hotel where Civil War generals planned campaigns, including William Tecumseh Sherman 's Atlanta Campaign and March To The Sea .
- Historic Locust Grove farm, home of George Rogers Clark and site of the homecoming of Lewis And 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 '' {Link without Title}
- The Peterson-Dumesnil House {Link without Title}
- Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing
- Seelbach Hotel , the famous hotel written about by F. Scott Fitzgerald and frequently visited by Al Capone .
- Spalding Hall ( Bardstown )
- Thomas Edison House
- Union Station
- United States Marine Hospital Of Louisville
- Vogue Theater , a movie theater in St. Matthews that closed 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
- Whitehall House & Gardens
- Whitney Young Birthplace And Museum
See Also: Museums of Louisville, Kentucky
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More regional historical collections can be found at the Louisville Free Public Library and the University Of Louisville .
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Louisville is home to many spacious city parks, several designed by Frederick Law Olmsted , as well as forested areas, trails and other outdoor attractions; distinctive examples include:
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