What interesting/obscure cultures would you recommend I look into?
Thuggee's
Nizari Ismailis (Assassins)
Druze
Alawites
Alevi Shi'a
Samaritans
Hasidic Jews
Cathars/Albigensians
Aghori Sadhus
off the top of my head...
>>3190759
Oh shit, thanks
The ottoman culture of comfy coffee drinking and smoking.