Fort Sumter is on a manmade island in Charleston Harbor. Access to the fort is by tour boat, but once on the island, National Park Service rangers offer guided tours. Some of the most stately bed and breakfasts operate within Charleston. It's filled with antiques, oriental rugs and heirlooms. The city's newspaper, The Post and Courier, is the oldest daily newspaper in the South.
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Here's a list of suggestions gleaned from several sources. Not if you're vacationing with kids. With dozens of new hotels, restaurants swathed in their best linen and museums, there isn't a better place to visit on the Mediterranean. If you want to spend part of your vacation a step back in time, try Charleston, S.C., with its Southern gentility, antebellum homes and a very walkable historic district and fort. When you tire of the bright lights and big city, there's a place, just two hours by car from Las Vegas, where eons light the way and silence is the only music.