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Johns Island, South Carolina

The Angel Oak

The Southeast's oldest living organism.

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Bishopville, South Carolina

Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden

Extraordinary topiary garden built by one man in a small South Carolina town.

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Bowman, South Carolina

UFO Welcome Center

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

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Summerville, South Carolina

Dorchester - South Carolina's Abandoned Town

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Old Slave Mart

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

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Florence, South Carolina

Mars Bluff Crater

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

Travelers Rest, South Carolina

Poinsett Bridge

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Drayton Hall

Oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

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Carolina Gold

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Carolina Gold

This varietal of rice is so good that it's compared to ice cream.

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Deep-Fried Peanuts

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Deep-Fried Peanuts

You eat the shell, too.

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Benne Wafers

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Benne Wafers

A crispy cookie from South Carolina, first introduced during the slave trade.

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Chicken Mull

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Chicken Mull

A buttery Southern specialty inspired by 19th-century seaside cookouts.

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The Gray Man was a warning that it was time to leave.

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