Places RolfStraubhaar Wants to Go

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

This ornate church designed by a self-taught architect is an eclectic masterpiece in the heart of Central Mexico.

This partially reconstructed Aztec pyramid gives a glimpse of what its larger counterparts would have looked like.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

The Acropolis of this little-visited Mayan archaeological site offers great views of Chiapas’s Lake District.

Trek through the jungle on a boat and a swinging bridge and you'll be rewarded with these refreshing, if pungent, mineral pools.

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

This series of waterfalls tumble into a radiantly blue river.

The former headquarters of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education now houses a muralism museum, including Diego Rivera's first large-scale mural project.

The ruins of an ancient pyramid built by the mysterious Chupícuaro civilization.

One of the world's largest murals covers a large swath of homes in its hillside neighborhood.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.