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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Cave City

6 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Cave City, Kentucky

Updated June 12, 2025

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Cave City, Kentucky

Dinosaur World

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.
Wigwam Village No. 2. (Wikimedia Commons)

Cave City, Kentucky

Wigwam Village #2

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.
Cool mural on the building

Cave City, Kentucky

Mammoth Cave Wildlife Museum

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.
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Cave City, Kentucky

The Dive

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.
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Chairs from Guntown’s original chairlift lay rusty below it.

Cave City, Kentucky

Funtown Mountain

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.
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Tourists to Floyd Collins’ coffin in Crystal Cave

Cave City, Kentucky

Floyd Collins Museum

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.
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Hidden River Cave

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.
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The Dive

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.
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