Oh, for the good old days when every town, great and small, had a local Coca-Cola bottling plant. Even my small hometown of Richmond had one...

The Armstrong Hotel, which once stood at the corner of 6th and Main in Shelbyville, must have been an interesting place in the good old days...

One from our weird mailboxes department: this fun mailbox of someone named Hatchett, with their namesake represented atop it. Spotted on th...

Across the street from the Shelby County Courthouse - not far from the Shelbyville Time Capsule - stands this highly peculiar figural fount...

There's a photo of Louisville's bicentennial time capsule here , and now here's one for Shelbyville - only it's not to comme...

Blackwood Hall, the former home of Colonel Sanders, is located near Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville. In 1959, at the age of 69,...

There are at least two historic estates called Wickland in Kentucky - the first and most famous is the one in Nelson County, on the outskirt...

On the outskirts of Shelbyville, this lovely old abandoned railroad caboose car can be found sitting next to the former Martin Jewelers bui...

This grave in Shelby County's Calvary Cemetery boasts not one, not two, but four fraternal organizations - The Freemasons, the Knights ...

The exact location of The Simpsons has always been a deliberate source of mixed signals by the show's producers. Various locations for ...

I'm an aficionado of the old-timey metal playground items, the kind that are rapidly disappearing from our nation's landscape in fav...

On page 213 in your copy of Weird Kentucky , you'll find the grave of Fred Purnell, Kentucky's sausage king. His is the only gravest...

Most Kentuckians know that we have a Paris, a London, a Lebanon, and a Manchester, but were you aware that we have our very own Bagdad ? Alt...

So what do you do when you're Colonel Sanders , you've just sold out your restaurant empire, your name and even your likeness to a c...

Long Run Cemetery, located off Old Stage Coach Road near the Jefferson-Shelby County border, contains what's left of the old Long Run Ba...