Twisted Tour Guide

Evade the Tourist Herds and Enter Into An Insider's Charleston, Georgetown and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Renowned and unknown history, hidden delights and fascinating stories pervade the history of the region. This kaleidoscope of discovery, architecture, personalities, egos, scandals, conflict, are surrounded by sheer natural beauty creating a vivid tapestry defining over nearly two centuries.

This guide transports you geographically and photographically to the precise famous and infamous locations where history occurred. The scenes may sometimes appear ordinary, weird, but often illuminate the physical background and descriptions behind events. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true.

This Twisted Tour Guide is your alternative to conventional travel. It accommodates the restless visitor, tourist and resident seeking a unique and different perspective to traditional tourism. South Carolina remains one of the most naturally stunning, beguiling, historic and fascinating regions within the United States. Welcome to one on the most useful, eclectic and enlightening introductions.

Charleston/Georgetown/Myrtle Beach

Historical Attractions:
American Theatre, Avery Research Center, Central Fire Station, Charleston Club House,, Charleston Historic Courthouse, Old Charleston Jail, Library Society, Charleston Museum, Historic Citadel, City Market, The Dewberry Hotel, Dock Street Theatre, Fire Lookout Tower, Fort Moultrie, Fort Sumter Hotel, Francis Marion Hotel, Gaillard Center, Gibbes Museum, Hibernian Hall, Husk Restaurant, Poogan's Porch, Longitude Lane, Marion Square, Masonic Lodge, Mills House Hotel, Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon, Old Slave Mart, Broad Street, Postal Museum, Powder Magazine, Ravenel Bridge, Sottile Theatre, Society Hall, Shepherd's Tavern, Sullivan's Island Lighthouse, Tavern Liquor, Circuit Court Building, The Battery, White Point Gardens, Wragg Square, Rainsford Park, American Gardens, Customs House, Fortified City Wall, City Drawbridge, Champion Oak Tree, Winyah Indigo Society, Pawleys Island, Red Store, Rice Museum, Atalaya Castle, Brentwood Restaurant, Brookgreen Gardens, Charlie's Place, Plyler Park, Sky Wheel, Marshland Walk, The Bowery & William Bartram Trail

Family Residence Architectural Icons:
Aiken-Rhett, Battery Carriage Inn, Poyas-Mordecai, Dr. David Ramsey, Dubose Heyward, Edmondston-Alston, Fleming-Ross, Hannah McBeth, Heyward-Washington, Captain James Missroon, John Rutledge, Joseph Manigault, Kerrison Family, Christopher Memminger, Fischer House, Nathaniel Russell, Rainbow Row, Samuel Legare, Thomas Bee, William C. McElheran, John Cleland, Heriot-Tarbox, James A. Bowley, Kaminski Museum, Stewart-Parker & Wentworth Mansion

Prominent Churches:
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Circular Congregational, First Baptist, First Scots Presbyterian, French Huguenot, Grace Episcopal, Mother Emanuel AME, New Tabernacle Fourth Baptist, Second Presbyterian, St. John's Lutheran, St. Matthew's Lutheran, St. Michael's, St. Philip's Church and Graveyard, Unitarian & St. Stephen's Episcopal,

Renowned and Infamous Personalities:
Blackbeard, Vincent Chicco, Architect James Hoban, Robert Smalls, Donald Pee Wee Gaskins, General Pierre Beauregard, Theodosia Burr-Alston, Edgar Allen Poe, Alice Flagg, General Lafayette, Grey Man and Boo Hags

Crime and Scandals:
Blind Tigers, College of Charleston Fraternities, Grace Piexotto's Brothel, Kress Lunch Counter Protest, Pink House, Hussar V & Atlantic Beach

Murders/Suicides:
Francis Warrington Dawson, Clifton Harris Jr., Patrick Moffly, Mary Ravenel, Officers Spencer Guerry & Jacob Hancher, Jim Davis and Mica Miller

Natural and Military Disasters:
1886 Earthquake, Fort Sumter, Sinking of SS Central America, H. L. Hunley Submarine, USS Hobson & USS Harvest Mo