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

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

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

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

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.

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

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

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

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

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

This historic Jewish cemetery sits right in the heart of a Detroit car factory.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."