Key West
At the southern end of the road, follow Key West’s music, people, and cultural connections through the destination’s Atlas feature.
Motherlode Atlas
A world of connections
Follow the places where music, art, history, and ideas meet. Start with a region, enter a city, or follow a connection across the map. Every destination opens another way into Motherlode.
Miami
Music, photography, and connections: Henry Stone, Betty Wright, DJ Le Spam, Berenice Abbott, and the places between them.
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS
The United States is a nation forever in motion—its true history found not only in monuments and capitals, but along forgotten highways, neighborhood streets, factory floors, music halls, and the restless search for what comes next.
CULTURAL CROSSROADS
Europe is less a continent than a palimpsest—empires, revolutions, cathedrals, cafés, battlefields, manifestos, museums, ruins, and reinventions layered so deeply that every border is also a memory.
ANCIENT HORIZONS
Asia is where humanity's oldest civilizations meet its fastest-changing future, creating a landscape as timeless as it is transformative.
RED CONTINENT
Australia is where the edge of the map becomes the beginning of another story.
RESTLESS HEMISPHERE
The Americas are less a destination than a conversation—a vast network of cultures, histories, and landscapes forever redefining one another.
HUMAN ORIGINS
Africa is a continent of astonishing diversity, where deserts, rainforests, savannas, mountains, and coastlines have nurtured thousands of cultures across millennia.