Places Polytropa Wants to Go

A hidden museum focusing on the sexual aspects of anthropology.

This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Part of a worldwide art project, this mysterious semicircle of concrete shapes holds the pieces of a larger story.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

View Kentucky's beauty and history from the perspective of painter John James Audubon, author and illustrator.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

This 19th century mansion façade adorned with immigrant patriotism is a symbol of Louisville’s history.

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

A museum that houses the world's largest collection of ventriloquism dummies.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

Hidden on two floors of downtown building, the library has an incredible deal on rent.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This unique structure is the only one of its kind in Virginia.

A massive, majestic mammal watches over pedestrians from his perch atop a former B.P.O.E. lodge.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.