Gibsonville, North Carolina
Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.
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Gibsonville, North Carolina
A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.
Tallahassee, Florida
This sidewalk monument honors more than 50 civil rights activists who helped change the face of America.
Jackson, Mississippi
This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.
Verona, Italy
A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.
Washington, D.C.
The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.
Baguio, Philippines
Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.
Birmingham, Alabama
In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.
Tokyo, Japan
Discover the mummified remains of Ancient Egypt in the middle of metropolitan Tokyo.
Milan, Italy
The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.
Milan, Italy
This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.
Milan, Italy
Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.
Milan, Italy
The mark of the Devil's horns on a marble column in Milan.
Milan, Italy
Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.
Milan, Italy
The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.
Milan, Italy
Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.
Milan, Italy
"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.
Milan, Italy
Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.
Marseille, France
For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.
Marseille, France
This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.
Paris, France
A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.
La Magdeleine, Italy
These ruins on Mont Tantané dates back to the Iron Age, but there is limited evidence for why a village was built so far from water or other resources.
St. Augustine, Florida
The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
An architectural relic that survived the hands of time.
St. John's, Isle of Man
Believed to be the former location of one of the earliest Viking assemblies in Europe.