Places wasabihands Wants to Go

A statue of the formerly enslaved person considered "the first liberator of the Americas" stands in the town named after him.

The eerie, tragic setting of one of Japan’s most popular ghost stories.

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

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright built an experimental, partially underground home in the desert.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A celebration of one man’s obsession to collect the strangest items imaginable.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

Once a safe haven for Black patrons and performers—including Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington—during the Jim Crow era, portions of this nightclub and motel have been restored to welcome a new kind of visitor.

Carved wooden graves mark the plots at this cemetery in an old mining town.

This house is one of the most colorful in the country, and is the last remaining example of a historic villa.

The home of a 19th-century author who brought African-American folktales to the mainstream is now Atlanta’s oldest house museum.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

This once-forgotten African American cultural hub was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.