Frankie's Tiki Room

Frankie's Tiki Room is the 24-hour dive end of the tiki spectrum - a small, windowless box on West Charleston where the carved gods, blowfish lamps, and lava-glow bar haven't changed since P Moss (the Double Down Saloon owner) opened it in December 2008, and where the doors literally never lock. It's the only round-the-clock tiki bar in America, and it acts like it.

The system is beautifully simple: eight house cocktails - Lava Letch, Bearded Clam, Green Gasser, Malekula, Thurston Howl among them - every one $10, every one strong, and every one available in its own collectible ceramic mug for $25, take the mug home. Retired mugs trade as collector pieces. Friday 4-8pm adds $4 Aloha Coolers, and a Hawaiian shirt earns you half off your first drink.

Know what you're walking into: indoor cigarette smoking is permitted and can hang thick (vapes and pipes, oddly, are banned), there's no kitchen - though delivery to the bar is fair game - and the stretch of Charleston outside is charmless. That's the covenant: real dive, real tiki, real 4am. The tourists who get it, get it completely.