"There's a world going on underground," as Tom Waits once said.
And what goes on beneath Kentucky's "dark and bloody ground" is stranger than you might imagine: Mammoth Cave mummies, interstellar impact craters, a lost city under Lexington, and more!
Pick up this month's "Back to School" issue of
Kentucky Monthly magazine and re-school yourself on Kentucky weirdness with my column
Commonwealth Curiosities!