Unusual museums in Charleston
Looking for unusual museums & collections in Charleston? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — H.L. Hunley Submarine (Warren Lasch Conservation Center), Old Slave Mart Museum, Edisto Island Serpentarium and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Charleston they'd never find on their own.
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H.L. Hunley Submarine (Warren Lasch Conservation Center)
The world's first successful combat submarine sank three times and killed its own inventor before it vanished…
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Old Slave Mart Museum
The last surviving building in South Carolina constructed specifically as an indoor slave auction gallery, op…
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Edisto Island Serpentarium
Brothers Ted and Heyward Clamp built South Carolina's first true serpentarium as a walk-through, low-walled h…
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Confederate Museum at Market Hall
Upstairs in a Greek Revival market hall, the United Daughters of the Confederacy has run a single-subject rel…
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The Powder Magazine
South Carolina's oldest surviving public building (finished 1713) was purpose-built to store gunpowder, with…
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The Vendue — Charleston's Art Hotel
A boutique hotel that markets itself outright as "Charleston's Art Hotel": original paintings, a mixed-media…