Places Polytropa Wants to Go

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.

Once the largest trading firm of enslaved people in the U.S., this building is now a museum that preserves Alexandria's dark past.

At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.

The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

A 14-foot monument marks the resting place of two of the town's earliest residents—and one unknown soldier.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.

Burke’s oldest cemetery also houses the victim of the county's grisliest murder.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This unique historical monument features large concrete spheres designed to resemble fallen stars.