A carriage tour stopped briefly on a street in the historic district in Charleston, S.C.

The Battery neighborhood on the tip of Charleston overlooks the the Ashley and Cooper rivers.

Rainbow Row on East Bay St. is said to be the longest cluster of intact Georgian row houses in the country.

The Charleston City Market, established in 1807, reopened in 2011 after a $5.5 million makeover.

Fort Sumter.

Rainbow row houses.

Fort Sumter is seen at Fort Sumter National Monument. Several shells lodged in a wall of the fort where the Civil War began were conserved.

Visitors walked toward the Ashley River at Drayton Hall Plantation.