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Welcome to Atlas RFID Solutions and our hometown of Birmingham, Alabama! We hope you’ll use this map to explore the area around our corporate office and discover the allure, charm, and history of the Magic City for yourself. Visit jovix.com/guest for directions to all the spots featured below. ATTRACTIONS / HISTORY ATTRACTIONS / HISTORY (Continued) EATS & TREATS (Continued) 1. 16th STREET BAPTIST CHURCH - In spite of its tragic past, 21. McWANE SCIENCE CENTER - School buses from all over 55. POST OFFICE PIES - Wood-fired pizza and local craft beer 16th Street Baptist Church is still an active house of worship the state pour into this hands-on science museum that served inside a former post office in Birmingham. The 1963 bombing resulted in the deaths of features exhibits like the World of Water aquarium, Itty Bitty 56. ROJO - Latin and American dishes in a quirky space with a four young girls and galvanized the federal government to Magic City, and Just Mice Size, as well as a 280-seat IMAX bustling, street-facing patio take action on civil rights legislation. Dome theater. 57. ROOTS & REVELRY - Globally-inspired plates with local 2. ALABAMA SPORTS HALL OF FAME MUSEUM - Dedicated 22. MISS ELECTRA - Keen eyes will notice this sculpture with ingredients inside the historic Thomas Jefferson Tower to Alabama athletes, this museum houses 5,000 objects hair of lightning bolts and a wardrobe malfunction high 58. SAW’S BBQ - Arguably, the best BBQ to be found in a town and a list of 300+ inductees, including 5 of the top 15 atop the Alabama Power building. filled with great BBQ athletes from ESPN’s “Greatest of the 20th Century” list. A 23. NEGRO SOUTHERN LEAGUE MUSEUM - This museum 59. STEEL CITY POPS - Delectable frozen pops made from hearty “Roll Tide!” will get you $3 off or socked in the gullet, honors the NSL, which featured many players that fresh fruit and organic cane sugar depending on which Larry is working the gate. graduated to the majors, including Willie Mays and Satchel 60. TIP TOP GRILL - Casual American eatery with one of the 3. ALABAMA THEATRE - Added to the National Register Paige. Interestingly, the American Negro League Baseball most spectacular views in the city of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1979, the stunningly ornate Association secured a contract in the mid-2000s for a “Showplace of the South” is as radiant today as it was upon museum to be placed in the building that you are sitting CRAFT BEER / BARS / PUBS opening in 1927. It still serves as a home to movies as well in right now (assuming you are reading this in the Atlas 61. 41st STREET PUB & AIRCRAFT SALES as concerts and events and features the original, silent-film RFID offices - if you’re reviewing this at the airport, please 62. ATOMIC BAR & LOUNGE era Wurlitzer organ. disregard), but the deal fell through, and the NSLM opened 63. AVONDALE BREWING COMPANY 4. ARLINGTON ANTEBELLUM HOME & GARDENS - A in 2015. 64. COLLINS BAR former plantation house built in 1850 with 6 acres of 24. RAILROAD PARK - This 17-acre green space is seen as 65. GOOD PEOPLE BREWING COMPANY landscaped gardens, the house serves as a decorative arts a key segment in a linear pedestrian greenway that will 66. LOU’S PUB & PACKAGE STORE museum, featuring a collection of 19th century furniture, parallel the railroad’s entire length through downtown. 67. SATURN textiles, silver, and paintings. It was added to the NRHP in Opened in 2010 with a beautiful view of the city skyline, 68. TRIMTAB BREWING 1970. Railroad Park won the “Urban Open Space Award” from the 5. AVONDALE PARK - This 40-acre wooded park’s streetcar Urban Land Institute in 2012. SHOPPING access and spring-fed basin made it one of 19th century 25. RED MOUNTAIN PARK - Whether you’re looking for 69. ALABAMA BOOKSMITH - The only book shop in the world Birmingham’s most popular day trip destinations. The park relaxation or adventure, this park features miles of wooded that sells signed copies exclusively was once home to Miss Fancy, a former circus elephant. trails and a connected system of zip lines. Built over mines 70. CHARLEMAGNE RECORD EXCHANGE - Up a narrow The giantess didn’t let prohibition stand in the way of her dating back to the mid 1800s, an estimated 305 million tons stairwell to a room jam-packed with new and vintage vinyl, fondness for the hooch, which could explain the random, of iron ore was extracted from this land. you’ll find Charlemagne exactly where it’s been since 1977. unaccompanied excursions around the city. 26. REGIONS FIELD - Home to the Birmingham Barons (a 71. ED’S PET WORLD - Hedgehogs. Sugar gliders. Bearded 6. BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS - This free Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox), this 8,500 seat dragons. Newts. A roaming tortoise. Chewbacca. You’re just attraction features more than 25,000 types of plants, 25 baseball stadium gives you the perfect excuse for a hot dog gonna have to take our word on this. unique gardens, and more than 30 works of outdoor and a beer under the stars. 72. FORSTALL ART CENTER - Family-owned fine art supply sculpture. 27. RICKWOOD FIELD - Built in 1910, Rickwood Field is the store, art education center, and custom framing shop 7. BIRMINGHAM JAIL - “Injustice anywhere is a threat to oldest surviving professional baseball park in the United 73. REED BOOKS / THE MUSEUM OF FOND MEMORIES - justice everywhere”. The famous line from Dr. Martin States. The gates are open to visitors who can explore the The author Allen Johnson, Jr. once wrote, “To call Reed Luther King, Jr’s. Letter from Birmingham Jail defended the grandstands or run the bases. Books an ‘old bookstore’ is a bit like saying the ceiling of strategy of non-violent resistance to racism. 28. ROTARY TRAIL - The entrance to this half-mile trail the Sistine Chapel has a good paint job.” In addition to 8. BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART - Spend an afternoon that connects Railroad Park to Sloss Furnaces features a being your first stop for rare books, Jim Reed has created a examining the artistic work of a number of diverse cultures 46-foot-tall sign modeled after the historic “Birmingham - wonderful, whimsical museum of nostalgia. and the finest and most comprehensive collection of Asian The Magic City” sign that once greeted visitors at Terminal 74. RENAISSANCE RECORDS - This is a store for pickers. art in the Southeast. Station. Crates and crates of classic records await your prying 9. BIRMINGHAM ZOO - With over 800 animals, this is the 29. RUFFNER MOUNTAIN - Once home to iron ore mines and hands. largest zoo in Alabama and one of the top 7 places in the stone quarries, this 1,000-acre nature preserve features 14 75. SEASICK RECORDS - It has not been independently southeastern United States to eat Dippin’ Dots near a real, miles of hiking trails and magnificent views. verified, but this may be the only place in the world where live gator. 30. SLOSS FURNACES - This former pig iron-producing blast you can peruse new and vintage LPs, catch an in-store 10. BIRTHPLACE OF VETERANS DAY - A plaque recognizes furnace became one of the first industrial sites in the U.S. to performance, and get a haircut. Birmingham native and WWII veteran Raymond Weeks, be preserved and restored for public use and was added to 76. SOJOURNS - This is the first wholly fair trade store in who organized the first Veterans Day in 1947 to honor the NRHP in 1981, ten years after its closure. Today, Sloss is the state and features jewelry, journals, sculpture, toys, veterans of all the nation’s wars. open for tours as an interpretive museum of industry and and much more. More importantly, it’s all made with no 11. CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE - This interpretive museum also serves as a venue for concerts and festivals as well as sweatshop, child, or forced labor. and research center is at the center of Birmingham’s Civil an annual Halloween “Fright Furnace”. 77. THE SUMMIT - From the Apple Store to Shake Shack to Rights District, directly across from 16th Street Baptist 31. SOUTHERN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT - This 75,000 square Brooks Brothers, you can likely find it here in Birmingham’s Church and Kelly Ingram Park. foot museum houses over 100 aircraft, as well as engines, largest outdoor shopping experience. 12. EDDIE KENDRICK MEMORIAL PARK - On 4th Avenue models, artifacts, photos, and paintings and is home to the 78. WHAT’S ON 2nd? - As Lou Costello once asked Bud Abbott, North, just behind the Atlas RFID offices, you can sidle right Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame. “Why is What’s on 2nd on 1st?” We won’t Google it, but up to a bronze statue of this Birmingham son as he leads 32. VULCAN PARK & MUSEUM - What kind of city builds a that’s probably a direct quote. Anyway, it’s a question best The Temptations in song. huge statue of a burly, bearded, bare-bottomed man to asked to the proprietors of this nostalgia shop ON FIRST 13. “IT’S NICE TO HAVE YOU IN BIRMINGHAM” MURAL - tower over its entire population? One that never forgets its AVENUE. Vintage toys, postcards, models, memorabilia, This slogan was used in the 1950s to welcome visitors in roots. Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and forge, watches video games, and more are stacked floor to ceiling and transportation hubs around the city, and its resurgence has over all of Birmingham as a symbol of the city’s iron ready to remind you of the little kid you once were - the paralleled that of downtown Birmingham over the past few origins.
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