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Celebrate Romeo and Juliet at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, the oldest free festival in the United States. Get together with 15,000 Shakespearian festival-goers that know the event as Shakespeare in the Park, a summer cultural event featuring live theatrical Shakespeare performances.

Watch the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, a thoroughbred race track in Louisville renowned the world over. The annual event takes place on a one and a quarter-mile track for a race known as the "The Most Exciting Two Minutes of Sports" and is steeped in traditions like drinking ice cold Mint Juleps and women wearing one-of-a-kind fancy hats. The event is one of the most well-known attractions in the city.

The Kentucky State Fair, the National Farm Machinery Show and the North American International Livestock Exposition call the Kentucky Exposition Center home. Check out these and other year-round events that have premiered at one of the largest facilities of its kind in the United States.

Pay homage to bright ideas at the Thomas Edison House located in Louisville, where a teenage Thomas Edison rented a room while he worked for Western Union in 1866. Marvel at the numerous exhibits highlighting some of his most famous inventions, including incandescent lamps, phonographs and early motion picture equipment. A visit here offers a look into history that you won't want to miss.