20 Awesome Destinations for a Perfect U.S. Trip

Alabama Civil Rights Trail, Birmingham to Tuskegee

Commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination by exploring places important to the Civil Rights Movement. Stops on this roughly 175-mile route (part of the 14-state U.S. Civil Rights Trail launched in January) include Selma’s infamous Edmund Winston Pettus Bridge, site of 1965’s “Bloody Sunday” attack on unarmed voting rights marchers.

Photograph by Malin Fezehai, The New York Times, Redux