South Carolina

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

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Hootie And The Blowfish, Immortal
Columbia - Flashback to the mid-1990s. Grunge music was in the air, unsettling the young. America needed a soothing aural balm, and a band out of Columbia, South Carolina provided it. Full story

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Eddie, World's Largest Kid
Columbia, South Carolina
At EdVenture, children crawl through the guts of a giant, ethnically blended boy.
Miniature Golf Capital of the World
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Over fifty mini golf courses, featuring erupting volcanoes, cursed temples, and lots of colored water.
Atom Bomb Dropped Here
Mars Bluff, South Carolina
A colossal Air Force oops in 1958 left a non-nuclear crater, still visible today.
UFO Welcome Center
Bowman, South Carolina
Jody Pendarvis has spent years building a huge double-decker wooden flying saucer beside his trailer.
Button King Museum
Bishopville, South Carolina
Dalton Stevens -- known as "The Button King" -- displays the cars and furnishings and clothes to which he's glued and sewed about a million.
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
Bishopville: Button King Museum
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 - EdVenture
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]
Florence: Atom Bomb Fragments
Gaffney: Graveyard in the I-85 Median [tips]
Gaffney: The Peachoid [tips]
Garden City Beach: Spaceship House [tips]
Hardeeville: Honey the Money Dog [tips]
Mars Bluff: Atom Bomb Dropped Here
Myrtle Beach: Medieval Times
Myrtle Beach: Miniature Golf Capital of the World
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]