Explore Orlando

Kia Center is an indoor arena in downtown Orlando, opened in October 2010 under the name Amway Center. It is the home court of the Orlando Magic of the NBA and home to the Orlando Solar Bears ice hockey team, and it also hosts concerts, wrestling events and graduations; the 2012 NBA All-Star Game was played here.

The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is the main performing arts venue in downtown Orlando, designed by Barton Myers and opened in 2014. Under its wide canopy roof are the 2,700-seat Walt Disney Theater for Broadway tours and concerts, the 1,700-seat Steinmetz Hall of 2022, the smaller Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater and a cabaret room.

The Orange County Regional History Center is a history museum in downtown Orlando, housed since 2000 in the neoclassical 1927 Orange County Courthouse designed by Murry S. King. Four floors of exhibits trace about 14,000 years of Central Florida history, alongside visiting exhibitions; the museum is a Smithsonian affiliate.

Lake Eola Park is a public park in downtown Orlando around Lake Eola, a sinkhole lake of about 23 acres. A path of 0.9 miles circles the water, passing the Linton E. Allen Memorial Fountain of 1957, an official city symbol lit in colors at night, the Walt Disney Amphitheater, a Chinese pagoda and swan-shaped pedal boats for hire.

The Orlando Science Center is a hands-on science museum in Loch Haven Park, founded in 1955 as the Central Florida Museum. Its present building opened in 1997 and holds four floors of exhibit halls, among them NatureWorks on Florida's ecosystems and the DinoDigs fossil hall, plus a large-format film theater.

Harry P. Leu Gardens are botanical gardens of nearly 50 acres in Orlando, with paths shaded by old oaks, lakes and thousands of camellias among tropical and semi-tropical plants. The Leu House, a 19th-century farmhouse, stands in a historic district within the gardens; its house museum is temporarily closed.

The Orlando Museum of Art was founded in 1924 as the Orlando Art Association and took its present name in 1986. Its building in Loch Haven Park dates from 1960 and was enlarged in 1997. The collection covers American art, art of the ancient Americas, African art and contemporary prints, shown beside changing exhibitions.

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art on Park Avenue in Winter Park, near Orlando, was founded in 1942. Its core is a collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany, including the chapel he made for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and pieces saved from his Laurelton Hall estate, beside American art pottery and paintings.

Fun Spot America Orlando is a family amusement park off International Drive, opened in 1997 and tripled in size in 2013. It has the wooden roller coaster White Lightning, the suspended coaster Freedom Flyer, multi-level go-kart tracks, a Skycoaster, a Ferris wheel and an arcade, and Gator Spot, run with Gatorland, where visitors see and feed alligators.

Hard Rock Cafe Orlando opened in June 1990 at CityWalk, the dining district of Universal Orlando Resort. Its building is modeled on the Roman Colosseum, and the multi-level restaurant displays music memorabilia such as a suit Elvis Presley wore in Viva Las Vegas and Buddy Holly's glasses. The Hard Rock Live concert hall stands next to it.

Universal Orlando Resort is an entertainment complex in Orlando run by NBCUniversal. It groups two theme parks, Universal Studios Florida (1990) and Islands of Adventure (1999), the Volcano Bay water park and the CityWalk dining district. Lands themed to films include The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which spans both theme parks.

Universal Epic Universe is a theme park in Orlando that opened in May 2025 as the fourth park of Universal Orlando Resort, a few miles south of the others, with its own gate. Around the central Celestial Park lie four themed lands: Dark Universe, How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk, Super Nintendo World and the Ministry of Magic from Harry Potter.

The Orlando Eye is a 122-metre observation wheel at ICON Park on International Drive, opened in 2015 by Merlin Entertainments. Renamed several times, including The Wheel at ICON Park from 2019, it took back its original name when Merlin bought it back in 2024. Its 30 enclosed, air-conditioned capsules look out over Orlando and the surrounding parks.

WonderWorks Orlando is an indoor science attraction on International Drive, opened in 1998 in a building designed to look as if it had landed upside down on top of an older warehouse. Inside are more than 100 hands-on exhibits on space, physics, weather and light, along with a glow-in-the-dark ropes course, laser tag and a motion theatre.

Aquatica Orlando is a water park on International Drive across from SeaWorld Orlando, opened in 2008 and run by United Parks & Resorts. Its grounds of about 24 hectares have water slides, two side-by-side wave pools, a lazy river, white-sand beaches and play areas for young children, and some slides pass through tunnels beside animal habitats.