Places Edited by Igdaloff2

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

A gaudy painted elephant stands in memory of south Florida's fallen carnies.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The world’s largest collection of angel figurines includes 600 black angels donated by Oprah Winfrey.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

The largest shot tower in Australia is a unique reminder of industrial ammunitions history.

An underwater city for the dead.