Explore Anaheim

Angel Stadium in Anaheim is the baseball park of the Los Angeles Angels, opened in 1966 as Anaheim Stadium. It holds about 45,000 spectators, and two oversized baseball caps flank its main entrance, while a 70-metre steel A with a halo stands in the car park. Visitors come for games and for guided tours of the ballpark.

Disneyland in Anaheim is the first theme park built by Walt Disney, opened in 1955. From Main Street, U.S.A. visitors reach Sleeping Beauty Castle and themed lands such as Adventureland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. It forms the Disneyland Resort with Disney California Adventure across the entrance plaza.

Disney California Adventure is the second theme park of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, opened in 2001 on the former Disneyland car park. Its areas draw on California and on Pixar and Marvel films, among them Buena Vista Street, Cars Land with Radiator Springs Racers, Pixar Pier and Avengers Campus.

Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, near Anaheim, was built in 1980 as the Crystal Cathedral for the televangelist Robert H. Schuller, to a design by Philip Johnson and John Burgee. Its star-shaped steel frame is covered with more than 10,000 panes of glass. The Catholic Diocese of Orange bought it in 2012 and consecrated it as its cathedral in 2019.

The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, near Anaheim, opened in 1990 and joined the National Archives' system of presidential libraries in 2007. Its galleries cover Nixon's life and presidency, including Watergate; the grounds hold the farmhouse where he was born in 1913, the graves of Richard and Pat Nixon and a Marine One helicopter.

Knott's Soak City is a water park across the street from Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, near Anaheim, opened in 2000 with a theme of 1950s and 1960s Southern California surf culture. It has water slides, a wave pool, a lazy river and a children's play structure with tipping buckets, and it opens on select days in summer.

Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, near Anaheim, grew from the berry stand and chicken dinner restaurant that Walter and Cordelia Knott ran in the 1920s and 1930s; its Ghost Town of old western buildings followed in 1940. Today the theme park has roller coasters such as GhostRider, the Calico Mine Ride and a Peanuts area for children.