South Carolina Quick Facts

Uniquely South Carolina: The Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston

Must See: Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired

Most Unusual: Button King Museum in Bishopville

Highest Point: Sassafras Mountain at 3,560 feet

Food to Try: She-Crab soup and Gullah okra gumbo

What to Do:

1 See the beauty of the Raven Cliff Falls

2 Have fun at beautiful Myrtle Beach

3 Hike the trails at Congaree National Park, which preserves the largest contiguous tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the United States

4 Learn all about the Gullah culture at a Gullah festival

5 Follow culture and explore the state on the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway