📍 Only the Best 10 in Charleston, SC

Rainbow Row. Thirteen consecutive pastel-colored houses along East Bay Street, the longest cluster of Georgian row houses in the United States — genuinely private residences, not a museum row, so the pastel paint jobs are homeowners' own choices maintained for the neighborhood's sake. Free to walk and photograph any time, quietest early morning before the tour groups arrive.

Husk. The founding kitchen's own rule was genuinely strict — if an ingredient didn't come from the South, it wasn't allowed on the menu, not even olive oil — a discipline that helped redefine what modern Southern cooking could mean nationally. Forty-five dollars average, housed in a restored 1893 Victorian house, and the menu changes daily based on what local farms actually delivered that morning.