Best places: Historical landmarks in Charleston, United States

Swamp garden with giant cypress trees offering boat tours plus a butterfly house attraction.

Greek Revival columns, walls & a graveyard from the 1750s stand amid oaks covered in Spanish moss.

Waterfront museum offering weekend tours of a 19th-century historic submarine, artifacts & exhibits.

Visitors snap photos of the legendary Angel Oak Tree, which is over 60 ft. tall with a wide canopy.

Sprawling Ashley River rice plantation dating to the 1730s, with gardens and refined lodging.

A pair of historic military sites with roots dating from 1776 & featuring Charleston Harbor views.

Colonial-era settlement with many original buildings & ruins, archaeological digs & guided tours.

👍👍 Cute little historical district, plenty of restaurants facing the river and free parking. Went during the holiday season and found it super pretty at night. Price of the restaurants are generally quite reasonable around this area. Would highly recommend it as a pit stop if you are traveling on highw...

Gothic Revival church dating to 1787, featuring stained-glass windows & a fan-vaulted ceiling.

America's first museum, founded in 1773, exhibits relics from South Carolina & Confederate history.

👍👍 So beautiful!!! The trees, gardens and the atmosphere of excited graduates, parents & friends!

Self-guided tours offered in a historic building, formerly a Revolutionary prison & City Hall.

4-block city market over 200 years old, with vendors of food, art & crafts like sweetgrass baskets.

Lush garden dating to pre-Revolutionary War times, with train & boat tours, plus a petting zoo.

Set on a historic rice plantation, this area offers a range of trails with exhibits & rare wildlife.

Preserved historical plantation with a Georgian-style mansion, slave cabins & interpretive tours.

Church built in the 1760s with a massive steeple & a cedar pew where George Washington sat in 1791.

👍👍 Adam gave a wonderful tour of this beautiful city. We did the ghost tour, Adam was full of ghost stories, and well versed in the history of Charleston as well, he even incorporated pictures as well. We saw other tours, I loved that ours was a smaller, more personal one. We did many stops on our walk...

Historic Federal-style home, open for tours showcasing architecture, furnishings & family artifacts.

Towering, red-&-white offshore lighthouse, rebuilt in the 19th century & accessible by boat.