Scene: Haben stands by a large display with a tower that stands about three feet tall. In the background are displays of statutes and monuments, including the Roman Colosseum, the Kremlin, the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, and The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque.

Haben: We have a braille label here. Torre de Pisa. Pisa, Italia. So it’s a curved tower with columns on top of columns.

You know, they always talk about the Tower of Pisa leaning. And I imagined a really dramatic lean. But this is more of a subtle lean, not as dramatic as I expected.

Scene: Haben reads a braille label at another display.

Haben: Pirámide de Chichen Itzá. Yucatan, México. Spanish and English braille are fairly similar, but there is some characters and punctuation that’s different. So I have to pause and try to remember my high school Spanish to read it. So here we have the pyramid, and it’s kind of a rectangular style, very flat, smooth top roof. And along four sides are the stairs. My family and I visited many years ago. And I remember when I was climbing up the stairs, a woman commented, “Wow! if she can do it, I can do it.” And my blindness wasn’t really a factor. I have the ability to walk. Blindness doesn’t impact my ability to walk.

Scene: Photo of Haben exploring a model of a gorgeous, brightly painted church. Her Seeing Eye dog is lying on the floor watching.

Haben: I’m in the ONCE Museum for the Blind in Madrid, Spain. It’s the only place where I’ve been able to touch world monuments all in one room. There’s another room dedicated to Spanish monuments, such as the Basilica of Zaragoza. It is large! And has so many domes and towers! Wouldn’t it be amazing if every country had a museum like this?