What would a Travel Guide for Progress look like? Surely it would include Britain for the technological progress of the Industrial Revolution (more specifically, Manchester for textiles or the first iron bridge in Shropshire)
Progress may also include arts (Florence and the Renaissance), government (Philadelphia, Athens), architecture and materials (the Pantheon with its use of Roman concrete), amongst other categories
What/where else?
Not sure if this is quite what you are looking for, but I've been keeping a list of progress-related museums that I have visited or want to visit, large or small, including: