South Carolina Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in South Carolina. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Myrtle Beach
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Aikens: 1938 Police Station Archway - Aiken: Atomic Waste Container Art
- Anderson: Big Adirondack Chair
- Anderson: James "Radio" Kennedy Statue
- Anvil Rock: Anvil Rock
- Atlantic Beach: Alligator Adventure
- Awendaw: Birds of Prey: Buzzed by Falcons
- Bamberg: Bush Bug
- Beaufort: Kazoo Museum and Factory Tour
- Bishopville: Button King Museum
- Bishopville: Cotton Museum: Lizard Man!
- Bishopville: Lizard Man Sandwiches
- Bishopville: Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden
- Blackville: Army Tank
- Blackville: God's Acre Healing Springs
- Camden: Agnes of Glasgow's Haunted Grave
- Camden: Statues of King Hagler and General Kershaw
- Cayce: 16-Foot-Tall Wireframe AT-AT
- Charleston: Bessie: Rotating Cow
- Charleston: Confederate Submarine Replica
- Charleston: Denmark Vesey Statue
- Charleston: Grayson's Tree of Knowledge
- Charleston: Macaulay Museum of Dental History
- Charleston: Old Slave Mart Museum
- Charleston: Restaurant Grave of Dog Poogan
- Cheraw: Dizzie Gillespie Birthplace Park
- Cheraw: Dizzy Gillespie Statue
- Columbia: (Not) Devil Horns Hand; I Love You Hand
- Columbia: 10-Foot-High Robot Head
- Columbia: Big Parking Lot Rooster
- Columbia: Cancer Survivor's Plaza
- Columbia: Eddie, World's Biggest Kid - EdVenture
- Columbia: Martian Brick Head
- Columbia: Marvin Chernoff Gong
- Columbia: Monument to Hootie and the Blowfish
- Columbia: Monument to the Father of Gynecology
- Columbia: Neverbust Chain
- Columbia: POW and Hanoi Hilton Monument
- Columbia: Retro-Robot Head
- Columbia: Smiley Face Water Tank
- Columbia: State Capitol Bronze Stars
- Columbia: Strom Thurmond's Modified Monument
- Columbia: Tunnelvision
- Columbia: Washington Statue Left Damaged To Show Yankee Evil
- Conway: Tiny Church
- Cordova: Old Coffee Pot On Roof
- Cottageville: Bee City: Town of Beehives
- Cottageville: Tow Mater Tribute
- Darlington: Darlington Raceway Stock Car Museum
- Dillon: Dillon Fence
- Dillon: South Of The Border
- Edgefield: Big Turkey Statues
- Edgefield: Trapdoor Grave of Doctor DeVore
- Edisto Island: Mystery Tree
- Edisto Island: Serpentarium
- Edisto: Tree Knots - Gator and the Hare
- Elloree: Animatronic Mr. Snider and Stuffed Mule
- Elloree: Big Blue Teapot
- Fairfax: Old Store with Gas Station Signs
- Florence: Atom Bomb Fragments
- Florence: Bomb Crater Marker
- Florence: Confederate Tributes to the Pee Dee
- Florence: Farm Where Herbert Hoover Visited a World Champion Cow
- Florence: Grave of Woman Who Pretended to be a Man
- Fort Mill: Baseball Water Tower
- Fort Mill: The Upper Room
- Fountain Inn: Normal Peg Leg Bates
- Gaffney: Peachoid Water Tower
- Garden City Beach: Giant Shark Store Entrance
- Garden City Beach: Spaceship House
- Greenville: Jet Memorial to Cold War Casualty
- Greenville: Medusa Tree
- Greenville: Museum and Library of Confederate History
- Greenville: Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum
- Greenville: Shoeless Joe Jackson Statue
- Greenville: Weird Peg Leg Bates
- Greer: Our Lady of Vietnam
- Hardeeville: Pink and Gray Elephants
- Hardeeville: World's Largest Boiled Peanut
- Hartsville: Last Yogi Bear's Honey Fried Chicken
- Hilton Head Island: Giant Neptune Statue Sundial
- Hilton Head Island: Man Walks with Gator
- Hilton Head: LEGO Art in Sno Cone Shop
- Irmo: BBQ Mural: Racist on Beloved White Horse
- Jackson: Atomic Ghost Town Trail
- Johns Island: The Angel Oak
- Johnsonville: Odd Statue of the Swamp Fox
- Kingstree: Yankee Confederate Statue
- Lake City: Huey Cooper and His Lucky Rabbit's Foot
- Lake City: Statue and Tomb of Doomed Astronaut
- Lancaster: President Jackson Born Here, Maybe
- Lancaster: Statue of Andrew Jackson's Mom
- Landrum: Last Covered Bridge in South Carolina
- Latta: Cotton Press: Earth's Oldest?
- Lockhart: Susan Smith's Young Victims Memorial
- Lugoff: Vintage Car on Top of Laundromat
- Manning: Amelia Bedelia Statue
- Manning: Swamp Fox Murals
- Mars Bluff: Atom Bomb Dropped Here
- Moncks Corner: Mepkin Abbey Tree Carvings
- Moncks Corner: Stone Bridge Built for The Patriot
- Monetta: Big Mo Drive-In, Big Peach Projection Booth
- Mount Pleasant: Aircraft Carrier and Mini-Vietnam
- Mount Pleasant: Cold War Submarine Memorial
- Mount Pleasant: Full-Color Shriner Statue
- Mount Pleasant: Jack's Cosmic Dogs: Retro-Rockets
- Mount Pleasant: Mural: John Lennon, Al Capone, Marilyn Monroe
- Mount Pleasant: Pete The Plastic Pelican
- Murrells Inlet: Atalaya Castle
- Myrtle Beach: Apollo Moonprints in Cement
- Myrtle Beach: Birthplace of Sports Illustrated Monument
- Myrtle Beach: Cancun Lagoon Mayan Adventure Golf
- Myrtle Beach: Captain Hook's Adventure Golf
- Myrtle Beach: Dolly Parton's Pirates Voyage
- Myrtle Beach: Fisherman and Shark Photo-Op
- Myrtle Beach: Gay Dolphin Gift Cove
- Myrtle Beach: Hollywood Wax Museum
- Myrtle Beach: Hurricane Blender
- Myrtle Beach: Miniature Golf Capital of the World
- Myrtle Beach: Mt. Atlanticus Minotaur Goff
- Myrtle Beach: Nightmare Haunted House
- Myrtle Beach: Parking Booth Dummies
- Myrtle Beach: Sea Cap'n Cain
- Myrtle Beach: SkyWheel Myrtle Beach
- Myrtle Beach: Tommy the World's Largest Crab
- Myrtle Beach: Warbird Park
- Myrtle Beach: Weekend Mermaids
- Myrtle Beach: WonderWorks - Upside-down Building
- Newberry: Big Egg Water Tower
- North Augusta: Monument to a White Supremacy Martyr
- North Charleston: Fire Museum
- North Charleston: Preserved Confederate Submarine
- North Myrtle Beach: Bargain Shark Mouth Entrance
- North Myrtle Beach: Hawaiian Rumble Golf
- North Myrtle Beach: Mayday Golf
- North Myrtle Beach: Molten Mountain Miniature Golf
- North Myrtle Beach: Mutiny Bay Golf
- North Myrtle Beach: Oldest Wine Barrel In America
- North Myrtle Beach: Shark Entrance
- North Myrtle Beach: Trinket Wall
- Olar: Tiny Police Station
- Pacolet: Trojan Horse Bridge Mascot
- Pelion: Big Peanut
- Piedmont: Street Corner Grave of Little Leila Howell
- Pineville: Grave of the Swamp Fox
- Ridgeway: World's Smallest Police Station
- Rock Hill: Museum of York County - Taxidermy Paradise
- Rock Hill: The Civitas: Scandalous Statues
- Salley: Salley Chitlin' Strut Festival
- Saluda: Buried in his Pontiac
- Seneca: The World of Energy
- Sheldon: Kingdom of Oyotunji African Village
- Spartanburg: Statue of Chaser, World's Smartest Dog
- St. Helena Island: Chapel of Ease Ruins
- Sullivan's Island: Library In A Bunker
- Sullivan's Island: Luke Skywalker's House
- Sullivan's Island: Mortar Fort Prisoner Pit
- Summerville: World's Largest Sweet Tea
- Sumter: Patriotic Tire Man
- Travelers Rest: Oldest Bridge in South Carolina
- Turbeville: Swamp Fox Murals
- Wadmalaw Island: Former World's Largest Sweet Tea
- Walhalla: Abandoned Stumphouse Tunnel
- Walterboro: Tuskegee Airmen Monument
- Walterboro: Water Tower and Jail
- Windsor: Devilish Creature Made of Metal Junk
- Winnsboro: The SHE Garden
- Yemassee: Old Sheldon Church Ruins
- York: Scrap Steel Dinosaurs
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Aiken: Lobster Races
- Anderson: Vacuum Cleaner Man
- Blacksburg: Abandoned Casino Castle
- Bowman: UFO Welcome Center
- Camden: Houseboat Pirate Ship
- Charleston: Giant Ear and Doctor
- Columbia: Car Wash Tribute to Happy the Tiger
- Columbia: Frank 'N Steins
- Columbia: Obama Gas Station
- Columbia: World's Largest Fire Hydrant
- Elgin: Hay Cow
- Fort Mill: Remnants of Heritage USA
- Gaffney: Graveyard in the I-85 Median
- Garden City: Maze Mania - Changing Wall Patterns
- Greenville: Airplane Whirligigs of Herron Briggs
- Hamer: Ginger Ale Factory Tour
- Hardeeville: Honey the Money Dog
- Lake City: National Bean Market Museum
- Laurens: KKK Gift Shop And Museum
- Marion: Gator Under Glass
- McClellanville: Shark Statue
- Mount Pleasant: Spanish Singing Produce Truck
- Myrtle Beach: Civil War Museum and Shooting Range
- Myrtle Beach: Myrtle Manor: Reality TV Trailer Park
- North Myrtle Beach: Giant Full-Length Shark
- North Myrtle Beach: Parking Lot of Goofy Statues
- Port Royal: Zephyr: Former Mother of Rubber Trees
- Prosperity: Frogs of Frog Level
- Ridgeville: Last Supper in Plywood
- Seneca: Osama bin Muffler
- Sugar Tit: Town with Hilarious Name
- Sumter: Man Made of Tires
- Surfside: World's Longest Stretch Limousine
- Travelers Rest: Bike Rack Made of Mud
- Walterboro: Slave Relics Museum
- Wellford: Hollywild Animal Park - Star Petting Zoo
