Grant Park

This guide to Grant Park in Atlanta starts with a squat brick building that once housed something far too big to fit inside it: a circular Civil War battle painting forty-nine feet tall and three hundred fifty-eight feet around, built by the American Cyclorama Company in 1885. Visitors once climbed through a floor door onto a slowly turning platform, surrounded by painted Union and Confederate soldiers lit from a hidden skylight above, weighing roughly ten thousand pounds of paint and canvas between them.