Places Polytropa Wants to Go

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Bible stories are brought to life with gloriously cartoonish kitsch in this South American theme park.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”