WonderWorks Orlando
The upside-down house on International Drive: a hundred hands-on exhibits, a ropes course and laser tag, open 365 days to midnight.
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Tourism
Orlando Citizen’s tourism records: the theme parks, water parks and attractions of Orlando, documented park by park.
Fun Spot America Orlando
Free admission, free parking, Orlando’s only wooden coaster and four multi-level go-kart tracks: the family-owned fun park as Orlando used to make them.
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Orlando Science Center
Four floors of hands-on science in Loch Haven Park, a giant-screen CineDome and an observatory — the local family’s institution since 1955.
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ICON Park & The Orlando Eye
International Drive’s open-air living room: a 400-foot observation wheel, forty restaurants, and the evening that schedules itself.
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Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
The real thing, an hour east of Orlando: a flown space shuttle, a Saturn V, the Astronaut Hall of Fame and a bus tour behind the gates of America’s spaceport.
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Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
The Tampa day trip: a 65-acre Serengeti Plain and one of America’s finest coaster lineups, Iron Gwazi at its head — 75 minutes from Orlando, worth every one.
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LEGOLAND Florida
Florida’s original attraction, rebuilt in brick: a 150-acre park in Winter Haven designed for children two to twelve — coasters they can actually ride, Miniland USA, and the 1936 Cypress Gardens at its heart.
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Aquatica Orlando
SeaWorld’s water park: drop capsules, duelling racers and a slide that runs through a dolphin habitat — Orlando’s water park of record this winter.
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Discovery Cove
The all-inclusive day resort: capped crowds, a reef to snorkel, a river through an aviary, and thirty minutes with a dolphin if you book it.
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