When we were doing our big trip across the US in 2001, we went to Dodge City - which was a few hundred miles off our main route, 66 - just so we could say that we'd gotten the hell out of Dodge.

That was a fortunate side-trip as it happens, because we went from there to Wichita and so discovered the Hutchinson Cosmodrome which is, for my money, the best aerospace museum in the world, bar none!