The Atlas Obscura Guide To Myrtle Beach

21 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Updated August 18, 2025

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Unusual Attractions in Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Myrtle Beach Colored School Museum

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

Kirk’s hand-dipped “dream cones” at the parlor’s 25th Avenue location.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Kirk's 1890 Ice Cream Parlor

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

The majestic, moss-hung oasis of Brookgreen Gardens’ Live Oak Allée.

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Live Oak Allée at Brookgreen Gardens

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

The facade remains quite impressive despite the church’s dilapidated state.

Georgetown, South Carolina

Prince Frederick’s Chapel Ruins

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

One of the golf courses leads through a string of faux islands.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Mt. Atlanticus Minotaur Goff

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

Fountain inside the Cove.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

The Gay Dolphin

This maze-like, oceanfront gift shop—the nation’s largest— has been serving kitsch to the Myrtle Beach community for over 80 years.

From a 2013 Stern Star Trek to a 1988 Williams-manufactured Cyclone, the Myrtle Beach Pinball Museum has more than 25 playable machines spanning five decades.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Myrtle Beach Pinball Museum

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

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Kirk’s hand-dipped “dream cones” at the parlor’s 25th Avenue location.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Kirk's 1890 Ice Cream Parlor

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

Exterior of The Parson’s Table, still showing its church roots.

Little River, South Carolina

The Parson's Table

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 5: All Costs

August 26th, 1950 was the night that changed Myrtle Beach. It changed Charlie and the impact reverberated throughout the south.

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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 4: Mr. Nobody From Nowhere

There’s much mystery surrounding Charlie Fitzgerald and who he was before Myrtle Beach. Before he was Charlie Fitzgerald he was Lucious Rucker. So who is Lucious Rucker?

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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 3: Power Cedes to Power

Charlie Fitzgerald loaned money to white folks in town to bend the rules in his favor. How long until he became a target?

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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 2: Sin City

Dance at Charlie’s Place wasn’t just dance; it captured the spirit of an era defined by both segregation and creativity. When white audiences arrived for the music, these moments sparked shifts that transformed Myrtle Beach and resonated far beyond its borders.

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Charlie’s Place: Music, Mystery & Civil Rights

Charlie’s Place Episode 1: Whispering Pines

At the height of segregation when everywhere else was divided, Black and white people danced together to the biggest R&B acts of the time at Charlie’s Place.

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Podcast: Mini Golfing in Myrtle Beach

From erupting volcanoes to mystical minotaurs, it's a putting experience like no other.

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Meet Myrtle Beach's Mini-Golf Master

Once a year, Mini-Golf’s finest gather under Hawaiian Rumble’s rumbling volcano to strut their stuff at the Mini-Golf Masters tournament in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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