Memphis, Tennessee
Al Green’s Full Gospel Tabernacle Church
The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.
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Memphis, Tennessee
The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.
Madison, Wisconsin
A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.
Memphis, Tennessee
The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.
Greenville, Florida
Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.
Atlanta, Georgia
A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.
Renton, Washington
The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.
St. Louis, Missouri
The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.
Brownsville, Tennessee
A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.
Tryon, North Carolina
The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.
Detroit, Michigan
The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.
Memphis, Tennessee
The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.
Greenwood, Mississippi
After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.
Quito, Mississippi
Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.
Morgan City, Mississippi
Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.
Hazlehurst, Mississippi
A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.
Detroit, Michigan
This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.
Detroit, Michigan
Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.
Detroit, Michigan
Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
Detroit, Michigan
One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.
Detroit, Michigan
Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.
Detroit, Michigan
This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.
Detroit, Michigan
These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.
New Orleans, Louisiana
"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."