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Charleston


Spanish-moss-draped, 200-year-old B&Bs are cool and all, but if you skew more hip and contemporary than antebellum and antique, this all-suite hipster enclave steeped in Americana arts-and-crafts kitsch is for you. Reclaimed wood-bound hallways lead to 54 rooms over a few buildings, which grow from 500 sq ft and are awash in modern indigo, some with kitchenettes and washers and dryers.

Common areas – a library, a rooftop pool, a farm-to-table restaurant and cool coffee shop – follow suit with saddles as wall art and build-your-own-motorcycle schemes. Valet parking costs $24 per day.


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1. Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim

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The oldest continuously used synagogue in the country, complete with a museum and gift shop. A tour costs $10 for adults and is free for children; check…

2. College of Charleston

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3. Gibbes Museum of Art

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4. Marion Square

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5. St Philip's Church

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6. St Michael's Church

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7. Joseph Manigault House

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8. Old Slave Mart Museum

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