A White Sea island fortress-monastery that became the first camp of the Gulag.
Basalt peak above the lagoon where runaway slaves hid, now a UNESCO site with a steep, rewarding summit trail.
Slave-trade island, UNESCO-listed.
Poignant slave-trade island, UNESCO-listed.
The oldest European building in sub-Saharan Africa, a haunting slave-trade fort.
Sobering slave-trade fortress, UNESCO-listed.
A chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people — chandelier included — beside the Gothic St Barbara’s Cathedral.
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