Places Dapper Dan 9 Wants to Go

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

A famous—but endangered—plant is on view at an unassuming nature preserve a quick drive from Myrtle Beach.

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

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

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

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

This abandoned open-pit copper mine features stunning turquoise mineral pools and excellent rock-hunting opportunities.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

The world’s first museum dedicated solely to electric vehicles.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.

The remote graves of a Scottish family who died of thirst while attempting to reach St. George.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

A hidden slot canyon in the southern Nevada desert makes an unexpected oasis and scenic hike.

A spectacular slot canyon at the northern edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.