Michelle Brandstetter

The KMAC Couture exhibit features wearable art made for the KMAC Couture event, a yearly runway show held by the museum.

Here are five travel-worthy zip line tours—organized by what they’re best at—where you can bust out of your hibernation.

The City Museum has taken the concept of “found art” and turned it into a multi-level all-ages adventure.

“Do you want to see what a $300,000 dollar diamond looks like?” Justin Koop asks, eyes wide with excitement. The third-generation jewelry maker has a contagious energy: Whether he’s telling his family’s story, walking you through the custom jewelry process, or showing you a diamond he just purchased, he makes you care like he cares. And Justin Koop cares a lot.

Whiskey history, from before Colonial times to after Prohibition: moonshine and medicine, all sorts of advertising, and an impressive collection of antique bottles and jugs.

It turns out that a real-life candy factory is everything you ever dreamed it would be.

There's just no substitute for remote sky gazing. So head north to Ohio’s certified Dark Sky Park.

Science is best learned through doing—something the Kentucky Science Center takes to heart.

You can ice skate in July, but it’s just not the same when there’s a ceiling.

Feel like dropping off the grid for a minute? There’s something to be said about a teeny cabin set deep in the snow-blanketed countryside.