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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.

SeaWorld Orlando is a marine animal park and theme park near International Drive in Orlando, opened in 1973 and run by United Parks & Resorts. Visitors see dolphins, orcas, sea lions, penguins and sharks in habitats and presentations, and ride roller coasters such as Mako, Kraken and Manta as well as smaller rides in Sesame Street Land.

Discovery Cove is a reservation-only day park next to SeaWorld Orlando, opened in 2000 and run by United Parks & Resorts. Guests spend the day on sandy beaches and in lagoons: they can swim with bottlenose dolphins, snorkel among rays and tropical fish in the Grand Reef, and float along a heated river that passes through an aviary of tropical birds.

Gatorland is a wildlife park on South Orange Blossom Trail, south of Orlando, founded by Owen Godwin in 1949 and still owned by his family. It keeps thousands of alligators and crocodiles, with a breeding marsh boardwalk and observation tower, alligator feeding and wrestling shows, an aviary, a petting zoo, zip lines and a miniature railway.

Magic Kingdom is the first theme park of Walt Disney World, opened on 1 October 1971 in Bay Lake, south-west of Orlando. Main Street, U.S.A. leads from the entrance to Cinderella Castle, around which lie Adventureland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland and Tomorrowland, with rides and shows based on Disney films and fairy tales.

Overton Park is a 138-hectare public park in Midtown Memphis, laid out in 1901 by the landscape architect George Kessler. It contains the Old Forest, one of the last tracts of old-growth forest in a Tennessee city, as well as the Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Levitt Shell open-air stage, Rainbow Lake and a golf course.

The Memphis Zoo opened in 1906 in Overton Park in Midtown Memphis and keeps more than 3,500 animals of over 500 species on about 30 hectares. Its entrance is built in the style of an ancient Egyptian temple, a nod to the city's namesake, and its areas include Cat Country, Teton Trek, Zambezi River Hippo Camp and an aquarium.

Disney's Typhoon Lagoon is a water park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, south-west of Orlando, opened in 1989. It is themed to a tropical island struck by a storm: the shrimp boat Miss Tilly is stuck on top of Mount Mayday above a large surf pool, ringed by water slides, a lazy river and sandy beaches.

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, founded in 1916, is the oldest art museum in Tennessee and stands in Overton Park in Midtown Memphis. Its collection of more than 10,000 works spans European paintings from the Renaissance onward, American art, decorative arts, photography and African art; the museum is preparing a move to a new building downtown.

EPCOT is a Walt Disney World theme park in Bay Lake, south-west of Orlando, opened in 1982 as EPCOT Center. Spaceship Earth, a geodesic sphere, stands by the entrance. World Celebration, World Discovery and World Nature deal with science, space and nature, while World Showcase rings a lagoon with pavilions representing eleven countries.

Disney's Hollywood Studios is a Walt Disney World theme park in Bay Lake, south-west of Orlando, opened in 1989 as Disney-MGM Studios. Its streets recall Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s; areas include Sunset Boulevard with the Hollywood Tower Hotel, Toy Story Land and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, with rides and shows based on films.

Disney's Animal Kingdom is a Walt Disney World theme park in Bay Lake, south-west of Orlando, opened in 1998 and devoted to animals and nature. Around the Tree of Life, an artificial baobab 44 m tall, lie areas themed to Africa, Asia and Pandora from the film Avatar; on Kilimanjaro Safaris, open trucks cross a savanna with giraffes and elephants.

Sun Studio on Union Avenue was opened by Sam Phillips in 1950 as the Memphis Recording Service. 'Rocket 88' was recorded here in 1951, and Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and B. B. King all made early records in the small room. Guided tours visit the studio, which is still used for recording at night.

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music stands on McLemore Avenue in South Memphis, on the site of Stax Records, the label of Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers and Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Opened in 2003, it shows a rebuilt studio, a 1960s church, stage clothes and Isaac Hayes's gold-trimmed Cadillac.

The Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum at the corner of Beale Street and B. B. King Boulevard tells how rural blues, gospel and country music met in Memphis and grew into rock and roll and soul. Based on an exhibition developed with the Smithsonian Institution, it shows instruments, stage clothes and recordings, with an audio guide of over 300 songs.

Beale Street in downtown Memphis was the centre of Black business and music life in the early 20th century, where W. C. Handy, B. B. King and other blues musicians played. Its central blocks between 2nd and 4th Streets are now lined with blues clubs, bars and restaurants with neon signs, and are closed to traffic in the evening.

The Orpheum Theatre at the corner of Main and Beale Streets in downtown Memphis opened in 1928 as a vaudeville and film palace, replacing an earlier theatre on the site. Its 2,300-seat auditorium, with gilded plasterwork, crystal chandeliers and a Wurlitzer organ, now hosts touring Broadway shows, concerts and ballet.

Island H2O Water Park is a seasonal water park in Kissimmee, beside the Sunset Walk dining and shopping district near Walt Disney World. Around the Live Lagoon wave pool and the Chat Creek lazy river it groups water slides of different heights, splash areas for small children and rental cabanas. It operates from March to October.

The National Civil Rights Museum in downtown Memphis is built around the former Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on 4 April 1968. Its exhibits trace the struggle for civil rights in the United States from slavery to the present, and the boarding house across the street, from where the shot was fired, is part of the museum.