The 25 Best Roadside Attractions in South Carolina
Ranked by Roadtrippi users — the people who've actually been there. Updated June 2026. Roadtrippi catalogs 205 roadside attractions in South Carolina.
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1. Big Parking Lot Rooster
Columbia, SC
This custom creation is something to crow about; different from the mass-produced fiberglass and "folk art" roosters seen elsewhere in the USA.
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2. Our Lady of Vietnam
Greer, SC
A statue of Mary, built by Vietnamese Catholic refugees in South Carolina.
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3. Peachoid Water Tower
Gaffney, SC
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4. Trapdoor Grave of Doctor DeVore
Edgefield, SC
When Dr. James Adams DeVore died in 1884 he had himself buried beneath an iron hatch in the ground. The opening below the door is filled with debris, but until the 1950s it was open, and beyond it, supposedly, is the doctor, in an arched crypt, sitting in a chair behind glass.
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5. World's Largest Boiled Peanut
Hardeeville, SC
22 feet long. Built in 2013 for a boiled peanut festival elsewhere in South Carolina. Restored in 2023. Now on a trailer, so it may be elsewhere when you visit.
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6. Chapel of Ease Ruins
Frogmore, SC
Picturesque roadside ruin of a 1740 church that survived both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars unscathed, but was gutted by an 1886 forest fire.
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7. Bee City: Town of Beehives
Cottageville, SC
The hives are set up as a small city and given names such as the Glory Bee Church.
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8. Obama Gas Station (Closed)
Columbia, SC
Opened in 2011, president Obama was part of its sign, and it sold everything from beer to naughty DVDs. Lost its liquor license, changed to a regular Valero station by 2024.
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9. Preserved Confederate Submarine
North Charleston, SC
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10. Oldest Wine Barrel In America
North Myrtle Beach, SC
So says the plaque attached to it, although its birth year is not revealed.
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11. Car Wash Tribute to Happy the Tiger (Gone)
Columbia, SC
A tiger named Happy lived at this car wash until 1974. She eventually died, and the car wash, with its tiger tribute, was demolished in November 2023.
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12. Patriotic Tire Man
Sumter, SC
Built in 2024, a man made of tires gives a military salute to the Tuskegee Airmen P51 Mustang monument across the highway.
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13. Mutiny Bay Golf
North Myrtle Beach, SC
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14. Giant Shark Store Entrance
Garden City Beach, SC
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15. Tunnelvision
Columbia, SC
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16. Monument to the Father of Gynecology
Columbia, SC
Dr. James Marion Sims experimented on enslaved women until he was satisfied that his techniques were safe.
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17. Neverbust Chain
Columbia, SC
A 25-foot-long giant chain sags in the air between two downtown Columbia office buildings. Unveiled in 2000. A work of art by artist Blue Sky that signifies something, possibly.
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18. Macaulay Museum of Dental History (In Transition)
Charleston, SC
Exhibit of early, dangerous x-ray machines and novel tools for roto-rooting decay from patients' choppers back in the Good Old Days. Currently closed for renovations.
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19. God's Acre Healing Springs
Blackville, SC
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20. Medusa Tree
Greenville, SC
An 80-year-old beech tree clings to a park hillside with an impressive snake-like maze of exposed roots. As long as you don't gaze directly at it you should be fine.
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21. Monument to a White Supremacy Martyr
North Augusta, SC
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22. SkyWheel Myrtle Beach
Myrtle Beach, SC
Similar to the millennial mega-ferris wheel in London, SkyWheel is almost 19 stories tall, with 42 air-conditioned gondolas and no lap bars.
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23. LEGO Art in Sno Cone Shop
Hilton Head, SC
Christian Sudduth is a "Brick Master" who uses his small Snow Cone shop to display his LEGO creations.
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24. Museum and Library of Confederate History
Greenville, SC
Guns, uniforms, a cannon, home front items, plus a gift shop, packed into a small museum,. Tells the Confederate side of "The War Between the States."
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25. Ginger Ale Factory Tour (Closed)
Hamer, SC
Blenheim Ginger Ale reportedly gave tours of its small bottling plant for groups by advance arrangement. But not any more.
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