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LOCATION South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union to establish the Confederate States of America, has North Carolina in the north, to the south and west by Georgia, located across the Savannah River, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Columbia. Other important cities are Charleston, Greenville, Rock Hill, Spartanburg, Anderson, Sumter, and Florence.
REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS
MYRTLE BEACH & THE GRAND STRAND REGION
Seaport of Georgetown has a fascinating waterfront history, fun shopping, terrific restaurants on-the-water, art galleries and beautiful historic homes.
Alligator Adventure, the world's largest reptile park, occupies over 20 acres of wetland habitat.
Broadway at the Beach features hundreds of unique specialty shops, unlimited attractions...even a 23-acre freshwater lake right in the center of it all.
Brookgreen Gardens is the country's first and largest sculpture garden where some 550 works of American figurative sculpture are displayed throughout one of the most beautiful public gardens in the Southeast.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Wild Water and Race Theme Park
Family Kingdom Amusement Park
Children's Museum of South Carolina
Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum
The Carolina Opry
Rice Museum
NASCAR SpeedPark
Horry County Museum
Alabama Theatre
Ice Castle Theatre
Ripley's Aquarium
Waccatee Zoo
CAPITAL CITY & LAKE MURRAY REGION
Camden Archives and Museum is responsible for collecting, preserving and making accessible items of importance to the history of the area.
Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site After the siege of Charleston, Lord Charles Cornwallis and 2,500 British soldiers marched to Camden and set up supply headquarters.
Confederate Relic Room and Museum contains memorabilia of South Carolina's distinguished military heritage from the Colonial era to the present.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
McKissick Museum
South Carolina State Museum
Riverbanks Zoo & Botanical Garden
Columbia Museum of Art
Carter and Holmes Orchids
Newberry Opera House
CHARLESTON REGION
Magnolia Plantation features the country's oldest garden and a reconstruction era plantation house.
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum is home to USS YORKTOWN (CV-10), the Fighting Lady.
Middleton Place is a carefully preserved 18th-century plantation that has survived revolution, Civil War, and earthquake.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
South Carolina Aquarium
Nathaniel Russell House
Charelston County Parks
Audubon Swamp Garden
Dock Street Theatre
Charleston Museum
Charleston IMAX® Theatre
Carolina Ice Palace
Gibbes Museum of Art
LOWCOUNTRY & RESORT ISLANDS REGION
Coastal Discovery Museum has indoor and outdoor exhibits, activity centers in the Sea Island Classroom, the History Time-line Exhibit, and Museum Store on-site, plus 11 different tours and cruises around the island, the Museum is a fantastic way to become familiar with the island's unique history and ecology.
PEE DEE COUNTRY REGION
Florence Museum of Art, Science and History was established to promote the Arts and Sciences; to collect, to preserve and to exhibit object of historic, artistic and scientific interest.
South Carolina Cotton Museum preserves the history of the cotton culture in the state.
SANTEE COOPER COUNTRY REGION
Berkeley Museum tells the story of 12,000 years of the region's history.
Stanback Planetarium features Sky-Skan Automation and the NASA Educator Resource Center.
Cypress Gardens offers a walk-through Butterfly House with hundreds of butterflies, beautiful plants, birds and more.
THE UPCOUNTRY REGION
BMW Zentrum is where past, present and future of BMW comes together in one magnificent marvel of a building. See the cars, the engines, the speed, and the innovation.
Hollywild Animal Park is one of the largest private collections of rare and exotic animals in the Southeast.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Museum of Confederate History
Peace Center for Performing Arts
Roper Mountain Science Center
South Carolina Botanical Garden
Spartanburg County Museum of Art
Anderson County Museum
Spartanburg Science Center
NATIONAL PARKS
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site was established to interpret Charles Pinckney's role in the development of the US Constitution. Visit this site to see his plantation Snee Farm and the transition of the United States from a group of colonies to a young nation.
Fort Sumpter National Monument The first engagement of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter on April 12 and 13, 1861.
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail follows the Revolutionary War route of patriots from Virginia, eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to the battle of Kings Mountain, South Carolina, site of the Kings Mountain National Military Park.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Congaree Swamp National Monument
Cowpens National Battlefield
Fort Moultrie National Monument
King's Mountain National Military Park
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