Interactive quizzes / Geography & Travel

Strange Landscapes, Real Explanations

Follow text-only Halloween field cards through Kentucky limestone, Idaho lava, Utah rock spires, Florida mangroves and New Brunswick coastal weather. Discover why similar eerie moods can come from different places and processes.

8 tasks3 sectionsabout 6 min

Original text descriptions of real North American landscapes, framed as fictional Halloween field cards. No photographs, live map, current weather, access advice or evidence of haunting is supplied. Park references support the physical-geography explanations.

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