Places Edited by michellecassidy1

The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.

Through the decades, Black music stars have performed at this historic hub for music and the arts.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

This solemn facility remembers the cruel effort to compel Native American children to relinquish their culture.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

This overlooked gem outside Niagara Falls preserves and celebrates Iroquois culture.

This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

Once a meeting point for Swahili slave traders, this ancient tree is now a monument to those killed by the slave trade.

The final resting place of the last "gypsy king" of Poland.

A stunning mosque owes its design to an Ottoman ruler nicknamed "the Butcher."

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

These nearly 500-year-old scenes are largely faded by the ravages of time, yet still maintain their power to horrify.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.