Most of our national leaders started their careers working in state capitols. Author Jim Stembridge says statehouses are bona-fide tourist attractions — working museums of regional art and history. “They don’t have water slides or video games, but they are great,” says the author of Fifty State Capitols: The Architecture of Representative Government (Coho Publishing, $27.95). To research the book, he visited every state capitol and shares some favorites with Larry Bleiberg  for USA TODAY:
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/10great/story/2012-02-16/10-great-places-to-walk-through-history-at-state-capitols/53123064/1?csp=Dailybriefing