Treat the family to The Little Nashville Opry or The Bill Monroe Bluegrass Park. Attend an IU sports event or an opera, ballet, concert, or theater performance. Pei-designed Indiana University Museum of Art. Forested Nashville’s art colony fame dates to the early 1900s when Impressionist Theodore Clement Steele overwintered in The House of the Singing Winds. South Bend is synonymous with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.
Even locals living in the suburbs often overlook the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Eiteljorg Museum, NCAA Hall of Champions, the old Union Station museum cluster, and downtown Canal Walk, to name but a few landmarks. The largest city and state capital is famous worldwide for its Indianapolis 500 race. Southwest Indiana near Evansville is renowned for the well-preserved Native American Angel Mounds State Historic Site. The agricultural heartland even has cross country skiing and snowmobiling to go with the Cornball Express.
With beaches, boating, and salmon fishing in Michigan City and Gary bordering Lake Michigan, there is more to Indiana than might appear at first glance.
