Places Polytropa Wants to Go

This museum of miniature displays provides a journey through early American history.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The world's longest known cave system.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A little slice of Japan and its aesthetics in London's Holland Park.