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South Carolina Oddities

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Giant Objects

Peachoid

Gaffney, South Carolina

A one-million-gallon working water tower was sculpted and painted into a 135-foot peach, complete with an enormous leaf, stem, and deeply exaggerated cleft.

Strange Museums

Kazoo Factory and Museum

Beaufort, South Carolina

A working factory that produces enormous numbers of plastic kazoos also contains a museum of historic examples and lets visitors assemble one of the buzzing instruments…

Roadside Attractions

South of the Border

Hamer, South Carolina

A sprawling roadside complex announces itself with enormous signs, fiberglass creatures, neon, a reptile collection, and a sombrero-shaped observation tower more than two hundred feet tall.

Roadside Attractions

Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden

Bishopville, South Carolina

Hundreds of trees and shrubs were clipped, twisted, rescued, trained, and transformed into towering abstract shapes that turned one residential yard into a world-famous living sculpture…

Historic Oddities

Mars Bluff Atomic Bomb Crater

Florence, South Carolina

In 1958, a U.S. Air Force bomber accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon near Florence. Its conventional explosives detonated, destroying buildings and blasting a crater into the…

Historic Oddities

H. L. Hunley

North Charleston, South Carolina

Eight men turned a hand crank to propel this iron submarine into combat in 1864. It sank an enemy warship, vanished with its crew, and remained…

Natural Oddities

Boneyard Beach

Awendaw, South Carolina

Coastal erosion has pushed the Atlantic into a maritime forest, leaving hundreds of dead oaks, cedars, and pines scattered across the sand like the skeletons of…

Historic Oddities

Stumphouse Tunnel

Walhalla, South Carolina

Workers dug this mountain railroad tunnel by hand before the Civil War, abandoned it unfinished, and decades later Clemson researchers discovered that its constant fifty-degree air…