Telling Google that an article is about a specific Place

I've been fooling around with schema.org and I found that there's an Article item type and a Place item type. The Place item type seems like it's for directories rather than information embedded in a text. Is there a way to combine the two telling Google that the article is about a specific Place?

For example:

(name)(The Washington Monument) is a monument located in (containedIn)(Washington, DC). (description)(The monument is dedicated to George Washington and is a major landmark on the National Mall.)

Am I making any sense?

I've also been playing with it, tried getting services marked up as a schema product and it failed :/ let me know if you succeed with the above!