Amid live oak trees covered in Spanish moss, Where the gravestones speak with the drama of Edgar Allan Poe, who residents say was inspired by a local legend to write "Annabelle Lee."

One of the first English settlements in North America, Charleston had pirates and battles and a boycott of tea.

Laws preserving buildings more than 75 years old, makes it an interesting place for architecture.

Residents were taxed on their homes' frontage, back in the day.

A plantation house sits in ruins, testifying to Gen. Sherman's "northern aggression" at the end of the Civil War.

On the grounds, a simple but beautiful slave chapel has been recreated.

And there was wildlife, there, too (though I didn't see any alligators).

Nearby, in Hollywood, I saw some cool antiques.

And a beautiful sky.

And now North Charleston has got something from the Seattle area, too.

My cousin Vicki Doyle shows the headline.