Tourist Information & Attractions

Located in Louisville, Kentucky - Muhammad Ali's hometown - the Muhammad Ali Center is a cultural attraction and international education center

Churchill Downs, located on Central Avenue in south Louisville, Kentucky, is a thoroughbred racetrack most famous for hosting the Kentucky Derby annually.

The Louisville Zoo is the state zoo of Kentucky and a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Our collections, which include botanical gardens, are accredited by the American Association of Museums (AAM) and by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), which is building North America’s largest wildlife conservation movement by engaging and inspiring over 143 million visitors and their communities to care about and take action to help protect wildlife.

The Belle of Louisville is the oldest river steamboat in continuous use.

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville was built as a two-story hospital for people with Tuberculosis.

Historic Homes Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit corporation chartered in 1957 for the purpose of purchasing, preserving and displaying historic buildings and their collections, as well as for furthering the advancement of education, culture and the arts in Kentucky.

St. James Court is a courtyard in Old Louisville surrounded by old, stately Victorian homes.

Louisville is home to one of the largest caverns in the United States…so large, it has been dubbed the “MEGA†Cavern

Located on the University of Louisville's main Belknap campus, the Rauch Planetarium has been delighting schoolchildren and adults alike with shows on the planets, stellar constellations and other astronomical wonders.

The 386-million-year-old fossil beds are among the largest, naturally exposed, Devonian fossil beds in the world.

Located just 15 miles from downtown Louisville, Jefferson Memorial Forest's 6,191 acres give you the opportunity to experience nature at its most spectacular - without leaving the city.