I will be the first person to tell you that I am truly and completely addicted to coffee.

It's kids.

No coffee and yet, so perky.

It is the very first thing I do every single morning.

I do it in a kind of zombie-like state.

I know all the steps without actually having to turn my brain on.

Do you like coffee, Jeannie?

No, I don't want any.

Oh, I don't want any.

Oh, no.

Oh, no. Besides being just my own.

Besides being just my own personal addiction, coffee is a plant that transform the world.

It's a plant that helps people everywhere become human beings each morning.

It is a plant that is sold in nearly every grocery store across the entire globe.

And for decades, the place at the center of this essential coffee trade, this essential coffee explosion, was a building in Brazil.

Its official name was Bosa Officials de Café, but it became known as the Coffee Palace.

I'm Dulin Thuris, and this is Atlas Obscira, the celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places. Today, we're taking a trip to the epicenter of Brazil's

coffee boom. We are headed into the coffee palace after this. Legend has it, that the very first coffee beans to make their way into Brazil,

we're at the center of a love triangle.

A Portuguese sergeant was stationed in French Guiana, and he was tasked with smuggling

these coveted beans into Brazil. So he got cozy with the wife of a local politician, and she

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