Best things to do in Charleston, South Carolina
The top 3 according to 185 votes from people: Rainbow Row · Waterfront Park · The Battery and White Point Garden. (Updated Jun 21, 2021.)
Rainbow Row, plantations and Fort Sumter: Charleston's top experiences according to TripAdvisor and travel bloggers.
Top 10
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Rainbow Row
Row of pastel Georgian houses on East Bay Street.
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Waterfront Park
Park with the Pineapple Fountain.
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The Battery and White Point Garden
Seawall promenade lined with antebellum mansions.
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King Street
The city's main shopping street.
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Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
Romantic gardens dating from the 1680s.
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Charleston City Market
Historic market famous for sweetgrass baskets.
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Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge
Walk or cycle the cable-stayed bridge.
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Old Slave Mart Museum
Museum on Charleston's role in the slave trade.
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Middleton Place
America's oldest landscaped gardens.
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10
Angel Oak
Live oak estimated to be several hundred years old on Johns Island.
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Fort Sumter National Monument
Where the Civil War began, reached by ferry.
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Nathaniel Russell House
Federal-style house with a free-flying spiral staircase.
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Comments (6)
King Street for shopping and food, easy afternoon.
Charleston food scene is one of the best in the South.
Rainbow Row is the photo everyone takes, for good reason.
Fort Sumter ferry is a great history lesson.
Magnolia Plantation gardens are beautiful but read up on the history too.
The Angel Oak is massive, worth the drive to Johns Island.