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Welcome to Atlas RFID Solutions and our hometown of Birmingham, ! 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. - 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. 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. - Home to the (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. - 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. - Spend an afternoon that connects Railroad Park to 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. RECORDS - This is a store for pickers. art in the Southeast. Station. Crates and crates of classic records await your prying 9. BIRMINGHAM - 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 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 . 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. Don’t be embarrassed... You will not be the first to one that clearly doesn’t remember all the specifics of Abbott years. You’ll find it on t-shirts, postcards, advertisements, snap a photo of his butt. & Costello routines. and maybe on your Instagram, as it is one of the city’s most 79. YELLOWHAMMER CREATIVE - Need a souvenir before popular photo spots. EATS & TREATS you head back home? Here you’ll find all of the “It’s Nice to 14. IRON CITY - Check the calendar of this downtown full- 33. BAMBOO ON 2nd - Asian fusion and sushi Have You in Birmingham” t-shirts, stickers, prints, and caps service bar, restaurant, and venue to see if your favorite 34. BETTOLA - Italian your lil’ heart of dixie desires. artist is playing tonight. From Portugal the Man to Lauryn 35. BOTTEGA - Italian Hill to Dwight Yoakam to Tom Jones, they’re likely to have 36. THE BRIGHT STAR - Greek-influenced steak and seafood THE BIZARRE your preferred genre covered. 37. CAFE DUPONT - Regional ingredients with a modern 80. BIRMINGHAM ODDITIES - Looking for a tribal human 15. KELLY INGRAM PARK - This 4-acre park is located in the Southern spin trophy skull? Handmade voodoo doll? How about an x-ray Civil Rights District and was a central staging ground for 38. CHEZ FONFON - French bistro of a hand you’ve never shaken? You are in luck. I think. demonstrations in the 1960s. Added to the NRHP in 1984, 39. DELTA BLUES HOT TAMALES - Mississippi Delta - style 81. HASSINGER DANIELS MANSION - This bed and breakfast this park features sculptures and statues of icons and hot tamales has a secret. It doubles as a Carousel Carving School. This is leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. 40. TACO DOS HERMANOS - Yes, it’s a truck. Yes, they are the not a misprint. 16. KIRKLIN CLINIC - Why is an outpatient clinic on a list best street tacos in town. 82. THE HEAVIEST CORNER ON EARTH - The name given to of local attractions? Because this clinic is home to what 41. EL BARRIO RESTAURANTE Y BAR - Inventive, modern the corner of 20th and 1st Avenue North upon the nearly The Guinness Book of World Records has deemed The Mexican cuisine simultaneous appearance of four of the South’s tallest World’s Largest Tongue Depressor. Ha! We’re having fun 42. FISH MARKET - Regional seafood prepared with a Greek buildings in the early 1900s. now, right? Actually, this building is worth seeing because twist 83. RAM-HEADED SOUTHERN STORYTELLER - Its satanic its design comes from the mind of celebrated Chinese- 43. GARAGE CAFE - A local “cash only” favorite with beer and roots are an urban legend, but that doesn’t mean that this American architect, I.M. Pei. Sorry about that whole tongue pub food in an indoor/outdoor setting bibliophile with the body of a human and the head of a goat depressor thing. 44. GREEN ACRES CAFE - Fried chicken and fried green isn’t worth checking out. 17. - This outdoor stadium opened in 1927 tomatoes in this historic cafe 84. STAN THE MUFFLER MAN - He may not be as tall or and was home to the Iron Bowl for over 40 years. It also 45. HATTIE B’S HOT CHICKEN - Start with “Hot!” and, if you’re mythical as Vulcan, god of the forge, but this local icon served as an alternate home stadium for both teams due brave, move to “Shut the Cluck UP!” once stood atop a business visible from I-65. A wind storm to its size and location. These days, it’s home for the Magic 46. HIGHLANDS BAR & GRILL - French-inspired, regional grounded him, but you can still catch a glimpse of him in City Classic, the Birmingham Bowl, the Steel City Classic, Southern fare in an elegant setting his new home. the UAB Blazers, and the Alliance of ’s 47. HOT & HOT FISH CLUB - Farm-to-table regional dishes, 85. THOMAS JEFFERSON TOWER - This former hotel’s Birmingham Iron. Gulf fish, and wine rooftop feature is a zeppelin mooring mast. Which is great, 18. LIGHTRAILS - Another popular photo spot, these 48. HOTBOX AT PARKSIDE - Asian fusion street fare served because zeppelin ownership never really caught on due to architectural light sculptures are installed in the 1931 art from an Airstream trailer a lack of parking spots. deco railroad underpasses on 14th and 18th Streets, just 49. JACK BROWN’S BEER & BURGER JOINT - Creative north of Railroad Park. burgers and a lengthy beer list DOWNTOWN LODGING 19. LINN PARK - One of three parks included in the original 50. JOHN’S CITY DINER - Southern classics (chicken and 86. ELYTON HOTEL plans for Birmingham, it is the home to the Magic City Art waffles) to upscale dishes (crispy duck) in a modern diner 87. REDMONT HOTEL Connection, Magic City Blues Fest, as well as the annual setting 88. THE TUTWILER HOTEL Christmas tree lighting ceremony. 51. NIKI’S WEST - The world-famous “meat & 3” to end all 20. LYRIC THEATRE - Built in 1914, this glorious vaudeville “meat & 3s” theater once played host to The Marx Brothers, Will Rogers, 52. OVENBIRD - Rustic-chic eatery offering globally-inspired Mae West, and Buster Keaton (and numerous other big small plates names) but fell into decline and was shuttered in the 1970s. 53. PARAMOUNT - Cocktails and creative pub grub plus an Known for its pin-drop acoustics, the Lyric was restored to arcade with your vintage faves its full grandeur by Birmingham Landmarks and reopened 54. PIZITZ FOOD HALL - Global bites served from a variety of in 2016 with - appropriately - a vaudeville-style variety stalls show.

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