A white oak with property rights.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.

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

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

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

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

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

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.