The National Underground Railroad Museum is the strongest reason to stop in Maysville. It occupies the Bierbower House, a downtown home associated with escape routes that crossed the Ohio River from slaveholding Kentucky toward free-state Ohio.
The museum is small, but the subject gives it weight. Exhibits focus on the people who moved through the region in the 1850s and the local networks that helped them. Pair it with a walk to the riverfront so the geography of the story is clear.