This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

A former medieval fortress, now home to Edinburgh Napier University, contains a rather risqué work of art.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

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

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

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

One of the first schools in the U.S. to admit students without regard to race or gender.

An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.