12 Ultimate Trips for Kids

From the tried-and-true (Disney World) to the surprising (Jekyll Island): a dozen essential destinations for Southern families

teenage girl at international spy museum

9: Visit D.C.'s Museums

Our Nation’s Capital is the South’s cultural mecca. Here’s a new way to see three of its iconic sights: Set out on a scavenger hunt. The first stop is Washington National Cathedral. Ask your kids to find the carved Darth Vader grotesque, added during the 1980s. (Hint: It’s in the building’s northwest corner.) Then tell them to touch a piece of the moon at the National Air and Space Museum. The last item: the Ruby Slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, now at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The first one to find all three wins a souvenir from mom and dad from our favorite kids’ museum in the city: the International Spy Museum.
www.nationalcathedral.org 
www.nasm.si.edu
 
www.americanhistory.si.edu
 
www.spymuseum.org


Only in the South…can we claim that four of the last six Presidents have made their homes here.

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