Some of Charleston's canals have been turned to roads. Their old boat lash up posts survive on the sidewalk, their function unknown to all but historians like ours.
I can think of no finer, more photogenic, more cultural city in the South than Charleston, South Carolina. Thus I put it ahead of my own great state of Georgia’s Savannah, New Orleans, Louisiana, Greenville, South Carolina, Chattanooga, Tennessee and others.
Charleston is an extraordinarily photogenic city on a peninsula flanked by two rivers and the ocean. It has red crepe myrtles, cobblestone streets, pastel facades, palmetto trees, landscaped parks, black wrought iron fences, Charleston houses with three story south-facing porches, elegant churches with soaring elongated single spires, old cemeteries, art deco theaters and offices, families with kids, wonderful people of all ethnicities and ages, brick buildings with beautiful American flags, address tiles of varying colors and materials, historic plaques, cannons and much, much more.
