Wow! Very weird to find my home state and birthplace on HN this morning. Some of these places are even new to me. I hadn’t heard of Crump’s sink, for example, which seems to be a more recent find.
Mammoth Cave, included in this list, also happens to be the longest known cave system in the world [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.doi.gov/blog/mammoth-cave-explore-worlds-longest-cave#:~:text=a%2Dkind%20adventure%3A-,1.,600%20miles%20in%20its%20system" rel="nofollow">https://www.doi.gov/blog/mammoth-cave-explore-worlds-longest...</a>.
If you're interested in the magic of Kentucky:<p><a href="http://kentuckyroutezero.com/" rel="nofollow">http://kentuckyroutezero.com/</a>
If you're going to visit the Florence archaeological site[0], you may as well go see the famous water tower[1]:<p>[0] <a href="https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Florence.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://archaeology.ky.gov/Find-a-Site/Pages/Florence.aspx</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Y'all_Water_Tower</a>
For geology lovers:
<a href="https://kgs.uky.edu/kygeode/geomap/" rel="nofollow">https://kgs.uky.edu/kygeode/geomap/</a><p>Two meteor craters are visible as "broken windows".
Middlesboro crater in the extreme southeast and Jeptha Knob near Frankfort (north central).
Ohio, Kentucky's neighbor to the north, also has a rich archaeological record. The Ohio Archaeological Society's journal is archived here: <a href="https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/55832" rel="nofollow">https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/55832</a> Fascinating read for anyone interested in this topic.
I am from Eastern KY and have some additional things y'all may find interesting...<p>Louisa KY was home of the first Needle Dam (and locks) in the United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam</a><p>Torchlight KY produced "torchlight coal" which made its way from Eastern KY to major rivers all up and down the East coast. And a very small, "wide spot in the road" community, Aflex KY was once a model coal camp and had a lot of conveniences. See two PDFs in my drive for articles on each of these subjects from a trade publication called The Black Diamond <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NDl85xvgmyiqVbq8dTe4cH-Ual4hZr7e?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NDl85xvgmyiqVbq8dTe4...</a><p>Coal mining funded everything in Eastern KY and you can learn more about "coal camps" and the history at <a href="https://coalcampusa.com/eastky/eastky.htm" rel="nofollow">https://coalcampusa.com/eastky/eastky.htm</a><p>The Pikeville cut-through was the second largest earth moving project in the western hemisphere -- behind the Panama Canal -- until the big dig in Boston. Still in the top 3! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through</a><p>We have the grand canyon of the south at breaks interstate park <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaks_Interstate_Park" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaks_Interstate_Park</a><p>Home to one of the most famous feuds ever <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud</a><p>We have our fair share of superfund sites... couple are interesting:<p>We had a huge superfund site as famous as love canal... "Valley of the Drums" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums</a><p>We have a nuclear waste dump that had / has plutonium disposed there <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats</a><p>Full list <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Kentucky" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Ken...</a>
Geoblocking? I am in Brazil and all I see is this:<p><pre><code> The request is blocked.
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Got to love Geoblocking, especially this one.<p>what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?<p>Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal?<p>Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.