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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Hardeeville, SC
Two enormous fiberglass elephants known as Thelma and Louise have long served as roadside mascots for Crazy Joe’s fireworks businesses. The pair have moved over the years; this pin reflects their current Hardeeville-area home rather than an older location still repeated by some travel listings.
Conway, SC
This miniature roadside church was built as a quiet place for travelers to stop, pray, or simply look inside. Only a handful of people can fit in the tiny sanctuary at once, making it look like a full-size church that has somehow been shrunk. Current status: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/location/sc/all
Columbia, SC
Artist Blue Sky painted a remarkably convincing tunnel entrance on the flat wall of a downtown building. The perspective and painted roadway create an optical illusion that can briefly make the brick wall look like an actual passage through the structure.
Fort Mill, SC
This chapel survives from the enormous Heritage USA televangelist complex once operated by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Modeled after the traditional Upper Room in Jerusalem, it continues to host worship services even though most of the surrounding Christian theme-park empire disappeared. Current services: https://www.btbab.net/about-1
Mount Pleasant, SC
The enormous Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown is permanently docked at Patriots Point and open for exploration. Visitors can walk through crew spaces, hangar areas, the flight deck, and exhibits filled with historic aircraft.
Conway, SC
Wild Venus flytraps grow naturally in this protected landscape near Myrtle Beach, within the plant’s remarkably small native range in the Carolinas. Visitors must stay on legitimate access routes and never remove or disturb the carnivorous plants.
Mount Pleasant, SC
Patriots Point recreates a Vietnam-era brown-water Navy support base and Marine artillery position with bunkers, helicopters, vehicles, equipment, and immersive environments. The land-based exhibit can easily be overlooked by visitors focused only on the nearby ships.
Lugoff, SC
An old automobile sits on the roof of a laundromat at the former Boykin Studebaker building. The car was restored to the roof after local residents missed the landmark when it was temporarily removed, preserving an eccentric piece of the building’s automotive past.
Walterboro, SC
This historic water tower has several tiny jail cells built into its base, creating the unusual combination of municipal water infrastructure and lockup. Local stories also claim the cells were later used as emergency lodging for stranded travelers, although that part of the history is less certain.
Myrtle Beach, SC
Several retired military aircraft are displayed outdoors near the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. Interpretive markers connect the jets to the crews and units that operated from the site during the Cold War and later conflicts.
Myrtle Beach, SC
WonderWorks looks as though a giant laboratory was ripped from the ground, flipped upside down, and dropped onto Broadway at the Beach. The inverted facade leads into an interactive science-and-amusement attraction filled with optical illusions and hands-on exhibits.
Olanta, SC
This state park protects one of the mysterious elliptical depressions known as Carolina bays. The origin of the thousands of similarly shaped wetlands scattered across the coastal plain has inspired scientific debate and fringe theories for generations.
Summerville, SC
Summerville created a giant batch of sweet tea on June 10, 2016, filling a custom oversized Mason jar with more than 2,500 gallons to set a Guinness record. The permanent jar remains near Town Hall as a roadside monument to the record attempt and the town’s claim as the birthplace of sweet tea.
Hartsville, SC
Nearly every location in the short-lived Yogi Bear fast-food chain disappeared decades ago, but Hartsville still has the last operating Yogi Bear’s Honey Fried Chicken restaurant. The surviving cartoon-branded restaurant is an improbable piece of 1960s and 1970s franchise history that remains open in 2026.
