Explore Charleston
Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
Open now · 17:00
The Old Slave Mart on Chalmers Street was built in 1859 as part of Ryan's Mart, a market where enslaved people were sold at auction; it is believed to be the last surviving slave-auction building in South Carolina. The museum inside tells of the domestic slave trade in Charleston through documents, objects and the accounts of people who were sold here.
Official site
Open now · 17:00
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum lies in Mount Pleasant, across Charleston Harbor from the city. Its centrepiece is the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, commissioned in 1943, whose hangar and flight deck hold some 25 historic aircraft. Visitors also board the destroyer USS Laffey and see a Vietnam-era support base and the Medal of Honor Museum.
Official site
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