Vineyards, Heritage & Gilded Halls

Housed in an 18th-century building, the city's oldest winery offers gardens & a cellar tasting room.

Experience the geological wonder and outdoor beauty of this natural landmark steeped in regional history.

Step inside 34 original 19th-century Shaker buildings on a 3,000-acre working farm — the most authentically preserved intentional community in America. Costumed interpreters demonstrate furniture-making, weaving, and the spare, principled Shaker way of life that produced some of the most beautiful objects in American design history.

Lunch on-site at Shaker Village's celebrated restaurant — country ham, buttermilk corn chowder, and Shaker lemon pie made from produce grown on the village's own farm. The dining room occupies an 1839 Trustees' Office where the Shakers once conducted all worldly business.

Walk into a full-scale reconstruction of the 1774 fort — the oldest permanent English settlement west of the Alleghenies. Period weapons demonstrations, a working blacksmith shop, and the graves of the frontier era's most colorful figures fill the palisade walls.

Dinner at one of Kentucky's most storied inns, serving the same recipes since 1919 — two-year-old Kentucky country ham, yellow-legged fried chicken, corn pudding, and bourbon ball pie in a white-columned antebellum mansion.

Tours of a Greek Revival building, once seat of the state government, restored to circa-1850 style.

A farm-to-table restaurant on the Kentucky River in Frankfort — seasonal American cooking with Kentucky sourcing in a dining room overlooking the state capital's waterfront. Frankfort's best sit-down lunch option and a clean counterpoint to the bourbon distillery and statehouse morning.

Access the gateway to one of America's most storied bourbon distilleries with deep roots in Kentucky's whiskey heritage.