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  • Butterfly lacks behind the home at Middleton Place

1. Middleton Place

4,210
Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks
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These are said to be the oldest landscaped gardens in America.

2. Joe Riley Waterfront Park

5,523
Points of Interest & Landmarks • Parks
By 866TaylorB
This award "recognizes a distinguished landscape architecture project completed between 15 and 50 years ago that…
  • Take from air craft

3. Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge

4,874
Bridges
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The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge replaced Charleston's former Cooper River Bridges, and forever changed imagery of our…
  • barracks ruins

4. Fort Sumter National Monument

5,620
Historic Sites • Military Bases & Facilities
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By Mateo0333
The Park Rangers provide insight into the assault upon the fort which triggered the bloodiest war in our nation’s…
  • Front of the "big house" as it was known by the people who lived here

5. McLeod Plantation Historic Site

1,110
Historic Sites • Points of Interest & Landmarks
By wpbjunk
McCleod is a microcosm of the history of race relations in the south - from pre-Civil War to the 1990s.

6. Battery & White Point Gardens

2,392
Gardens
Charlestowne
By firstladyluv
The Park itself tells stories of Charleston's History and the Civil War through the statues and monuments.
  • front door

7. Nathaniel Russell House

1,960
Historic Sites • History Museums
Charlestowne
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By DeanMurphy2020
Amid formal gardens, NRH is one of America’s most important neoclassical dwellings declared a National Historic…
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8. Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon

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History Museums
Charlestowne
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By LeeE606
The Exchange (built in 1768) is one of the last formal structures Britain constructed in Colonial America.
  • Caretta the star of our Great Ocean Tank

9. South Carolina Aquarium

2,310
Aquariums
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By Hey_Joe54
The museum has aquatic wildlife native to South Carolina swamps, rovers and coastline from alligators to seagoing…
  • Magnolia Plantation Flowers

10. Magnolia Plantation & Gardens

6,839
Historic Sites • Gardens
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By Observer1
This is the 500 acre remnant of the original 2,000 acre Drayton plantation, founded in 1676, and it’s now being run by…
  • Beautiful Pineapple Fountain in Waterfront Park near the Battery.

11. Pineapple Fountain

578
Points of Interest & Landmarks • Fountains
French Quarter
By TreeHugger54
It has a unique design and welcomes visitors to the City of Charleston.
  • Established in 1807

12. Charleston City Market

7,958
Points of Interest & Landmarks • Flea & Street Markets
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It is the Cultural Heart of Charleston since 1804 and a National Historic Landmark.
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