Los Angeles, California
California Institute of Abnormalarts (CIA)
Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.
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Los Angeles, California
Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.
McLean, Virginia
A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.
Le Morne, Mauritius
This monument sits at the foot of a mountain from which legend says enslaved people jumped to their deaths.
Ocaña, Colombia
Colombia’s only monument erected to mark the end of slavery in the former Republic of New Granada.
Bimbia, Cameroon
Buried deep in the forest near Limbe, this little-known slave port became the point of no return for 10 percent of enslaved Africans.
Ndola, Zambia
Once a meeting point for Swahili slave traders, this ancient tree is now a monument to those killed by the slave trade.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.
Dakar, Senegal
Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.
New York, New York
Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Alexandria, Virginia
The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.
Brooklyn, New York
This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.
Kobe, Japan
A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.
Tokyo, Japan
Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.
Beijing, China
A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.
Bangkok, Thailand
The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Trade in that pesky human soul for cold-hard circuits.
Houston, Texas
Jog (or stroll) down an esplanade of fluctuating and whimsical sculpture works.
Houston, Texas
Beer lover's can-covered house.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.