Places Polytropa Wants to Go

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.