Plants & Habitats
Florida’s famous river of grass, this national park is home to alligators and airboat tours.
What is the Everglades?
This Tennessee city is home to Elvis Presley's Graceland.
What is Memphis?
This tree-climbing marsupial is the only one native to the U.S. and is common across the Southeast.
What is an opossum?
This peach-based dessert is baked with a thick, buttery crust and is Georgia-famous.
What is peach cobbler?
This spooky seasonal celebration at Disney World is family-friendly and full of candy.
What is Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party?
These wetlands, found in the Coastal Plain, are dominated by bald cypress and water tupelo trees.
What are swamps?
You can visit this world’s largest freshwater spring in Florida, popular for swimming and manatee sightings.
What is silver springs?
This white-tailed mammal is the state animal of several Southern states and is popular with hunters.
What is a white-tailed deer?
Reportedly living in Florida’s Everglades, this skunky-smelling creature is the Sunshine State’s Bigfoot.
What is the Skunk Ape?
This park, next to SeaWorld Orlando, is named after a Latin word for “water.”
What is Aquatica?
These falls in Georgia are among the tallest east of the Mississippi and located in Tallulah Gorge.
What are Tallulah Falls?
This North Carolina Lighthouse is the tallest in the U.S.
What is Cape Hatteras Lighthouse?
This Southern slang for a bug that lights up at night is more charming than its scientific name.
What is a lightning bug?
Known to haunt the swamps of Louisiana, this werewolf-like creature shares its name with a Cajun legend.
What is the Rougarou?
Howl-O-Scream is hosted annually at this Florida park owned by SeaWorld.
What is Busch Gardens Tampa Bay?
The Blue Ridge Parkway runs through this mountain range known for its hazy vistas.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
You’ll find George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate in this state.
What is Virginia?
This armored animal is the state small mammal of Texas and loves to dig.
What is the nine-banded armadillo?
A signature pie of the South, this dessert is filled with nuts and corn syrup.
What is pecan pie?
This Disney water park is themed like a ski resort melted into a water attraction.
What is blizzard beach?
These wetlands are common in the Everglades and provide habitat for alligators and wading birds.
What are marshes?
This coral rock structure in Florida was built entirely by one man and remains a mysterious feat of engineering.
What is Coral Castle?
This striped predator glides through Southern waters and is sometimes confused with a baby gator.
What is a water moccasin or cottonmouth? (Accept either).
This Appalachian cryptid, said to have no head and carry a lantern, is more ghost than beast.
What is the Bell Witch or The Lantern Man?
Dollywood’s fall celebration includes this glowing nighttime pumpkin experience.
What is Great Pumpkin LumiNights?