What this atlas tracks
Active rooms and vanished legends live side by side.
The directory keeps open bars and closed icons in one system so you can watch the movement spread, contract, and revive across decades.
Past and present tropical rooms
Track the bamboo palaces, basement grottos, and hotel lagoons of tiki history.
A living static atlas of active sanctuaries and vanished legends, spanning midcentury originals, revival dens, and global outposts.
Field guide dispatch
Hundreds of bars logged
Midcentury icons, global outposts, revival dens
From Donn Beach's first experiments to modern Tokyo, Dubai, and Mexico City rooms.
Search by era, region, or survival status. The list and the map stay in sync.
Background photo: Willjay · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Legendary rooms
The stops that define the atlas.
Featured entries carry richer archive notes, room details, and drink lists. Everything else stays searchable and mapped.
Hotspot guides
Start with the cities that reward a dedicated tiki trip.
These guides turn the raw atlas into usable routes for the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the next wave of hotspot cities.
Regional spread
The map extends far beyond California.
North America still dominates the surviving mythology, but the atlas tracks outposts across Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
Region-level map of the atlas footprint.
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Largest regional footprint
Weighted by active entries
Atlas explorer
Search the archive and watch the chart update.
Use search, region, status, and era to trim the field. Optional tag filtering is available directly from cards and detail pages.
Stylized world chart with synced pins for filtered entries.
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Closed
Featured
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The chart is empty at this combination.
Clear one or more filters to reopen the field.
Placeholder art
Imagery is graphical by design in v1.
Until photos are cleared and sourced, every card and detail page uses theme-driven poster art generated from status, era, and region.
What comes next
The content model is ready for deeper archival layers.
The atlas now carries provisional entries imported from a public tiki-bar map, so more citations, exact addresses, opening years, photos, and long-form stories can be layered in without changing the URL structure, map logic, or filter system.