When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

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

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

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

The former home of the woman who successfully fought to integrate restaurants in Washington, D.C.

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

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.

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

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

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

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

The singer, actor, and activist lived here during his final years, and now it’s a museum dedicated to his legacy.

North Africa's first museum of its kind preserves the culture of Moroccan women and their artistic achievements. 

This poignant art installation raises awareness of violence against women.

A whimsical folk art environment where you can lose yourself in the many colors of joy, beauty, and creativity.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

This beautiful fountain was sculpted by a female artist who was ahead of her time.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.