South Carolina

Find South Carolina travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.

Trunkations

Deep South Wants Share Of Nuke Fame
Aiken - For decades, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has been a backwater of America’s atom bomb heritage. Full story

Peachoid Water Tower
Gaffney, South Carolina
This giant watersphere is shaped and painted to look like a peach -- but some still think that it looks like a big butt.
South Of The Border
Dillon, South Carolina
The classic I-95 tourist trap and vacation theme world, just south of the North Carolina border.

Notable places we've visited or heard about.

Anderson: Statue of a Human Radio [tips]
Bowman: UFO Welcome Center [tips]
Bishopville: Pearl's Topiary Garden [tips]
Blackville: God's Acre Healing Springs [tips]
Charleston: Macaulay Museum of Dental History [tips]
Columbia: Busted Plug [tips]
Columbia: Monument to the Founder of Gynecology [tips]
Columbia: Strom Thurmond's Modified Monument [tips]
Columbia: Tunnelvision [tips]
Columbia: Washington Statue Left Damaged To Show Yankee Evil [tips]
Columbia: World's Biggest Kid [tips]
Conway: Tiny Church
Cottageville: Bee City: Town of Beehives [tips]
Darlington: National Stock Car Hall of Fame [tips]
Dillon: South of the Border. News, 1997: SOB Billboards , 2001: Death of Alan Schafer [tips]
Edisto Island: Serpentarium [tips]
Gaffney: Graveyard in the I-85 Median [tips]
Gaffney: The Peachoid [tips]
Garden City Beach: Spaceship House [tips]
Hardeeville: Honey the Money Dog [tips]
Myrtle Beach: Medieval Times
Newberry: Egg Water Tower [tips]
North Myrtle Beach:Alligator Adventure [tips]
Ridgeway: World's Smallest Police Station [tips]
Rock Hill: The Civitas -- Scandalous Statues [tips]
Sheldon: Oyotunji African Village
Walhalla: Abandoned Stumphouse Tunnel [tips]