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The Blues Hall of Fame on South Main Street in Memphis is run by the Blues Foundation, which has inducted blues performers, recordings and writers since 1980. The museum opened in 2015 and presents the inductees in galleries with instruments, clothes, photographs and listening stations with their recordings.

Graceland is the mansion in Whitehaven, about 14 km south of downtown Memphis, where Elvis Presley lived from 1957 until his death in 1977. He is buried in its Meditation Garden with members of his family. Opened as a house museum in 1982, it shows the mansion's rooms, and across the street the Elvis Presley's Memphis complex displays his cars, aircraft and costumes.

Boggy Creek Airboat Adventures is a 32-acre lakeside park south of Kissimmee from which guided airboat tours run into the marshes of the Everglades headwaters, where alligators, turtles and wading birds live. The park also has a butterfly garden, a gem and fossil mining sluice, an alligator pond and a Highland cattle area.

Legoland Florida is a theme park resort in Winter Haven that opened in October 2011 on the site of the former Cypress Gardens park. Aimed at families with children aged 2 to 12, it has more than 50 rides, shows and attractions in Lego-themed lands, a Miniland of brick models, a water park and the preserved Cypress Gardens botanical garden.

WonderWorks Panama City Beach is a hands-on science centre on Front Beach Road in a building designed to look as if it landed upside down. Inside are more than 100 interactive exhibits on weather, space, light and the human body, a ropes course, laser tag and simulators.

St. Andrews State Park covers about 1,200 acres at the eastern tip of Panama City Beach, between the Gulf of Mexico and St. Andrew Bay. It has white-sand Gulf beaches, dunes, two fishing piers, a jetty-sheltered swimming area, nature trails and a boat shuttle to Shell Island.

The Man in the Sea Museum in Panama City Beach covers the history of diving and undersea work, from early helmets and dive gear to the US Navy's experiments with living on the seabed. Outdoors stand the SEALAB I habitat, decompression chambers and submersibles.

Camp Helen State Park lies at the western edge of Panama City Beach where Lake Powell, a coastal dune lake, meets the Gulf of Mexico. Its 180 acres hold beach, dunes, salt marsh and a 1930s lodge from the property's time as a resort and company holiday camp.

MOSI, the Museum of Science and Industry in north Tampa, is a hands-on science centre founded in 1962. Its exhibits cover the human body, flight, space and weather, with a planetarium, a butterfly garden and a high-wire bicycle ride for visitors.

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is an African-themed theme park and zoo in north Tampa, opened in 1959 by Anheuser-Busch. It keeps more than 200 animal species, with a safari across the Serengeti Plain, and has roller coasters such as SheiKra, Montu, Cheetah Hunt and Iron Gwazi.

ZooTampa at Lowry Park, on the Hillsborough River in north Tampa, keeps more than 1,300 animals in areas devoted to Florida, Africa, Asia and Australia. It runs one of the few non-profit hospitals for injured and orphaned manatees, which visitors can see in its Manatee Critical Care Center.

Ybor City Museum State Park tells the story of Tampa's cigar-making district, founded in 1886 by Vicente Martinez Ybor, whose Cuban, Spanish and Italian workers made it a centre of the cigar trade. The museum is in the 1923 Ferlita Bakery, beside a restored cigar worker's cottage and a garden.

The Florida Aquarium in Tampa's Channel District opened in 1995 under a shell-shaped glass dome. Its galleries follow water from Florida's springs and wetlands to a coral reef tank of about 1.9 million litres, with sharks, sea turtles, penguins and an outdoor splash area; it also runs a coral restoration programme.

Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Florida Avenue in downtown Tampa was completed in 1905 in Romanesque Revival style, of granite and marble, for a parish founded in 1860. Its octagonal dome rises 29 metres, and the interior has stained-glass windows made in Munich; Franciscan friars run the parish.

Tampa Theatre on Franklin Street opened in 1926 as an atmospheric movie palace designed by John Eberson, its auditorium made to look like a Mediterranean courtyard under a night sky. Saved from demolition in 1973, it shows films daily, hosts concerts and has a Wurlitzer theatre organ.

The David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts on the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa opened in 1987 and is one of the largest performing arts centres in the southeastern United States. Its five theatres host touring Broadway shows, Opera Tampa, concerts, dance and comedy.

The Glazer Children's Museum in Curtis Hixon Park, downtown Tampa, opened in 2010 in a building with a colourful façade beside the Tampa Museum of Art. Its 35,000 square feet of hands-on exhibits let children play at being firefighters, vets, pilots and shopkeepers, build, climb and experiment with water.

The Tampa Museum of Art in Curtis Hixon Park opened its current building on the Hillsborough River in 2010, an aluminium-clad box by Stanley Saitowitz that glows with LED light at night. Its collection spans Greek and Roman antiquities, one of the largest in the southeastern United States, and modern and contemporary art.

The Tampa Bay History Center on the Riverwalk covers 12,000 years of the region's history over three floors: its first peoples, Spanish explorers, the cigar industry of Ybor City and the growth of modern Tampa. The Touchton Map Library holds maps of Florida from five centuries, and a pirate-ship gallery shows the age of sail.

The Tampa Riverwalk is a 4-km waterfront path along the east bank of the Hillsborough River and the Garrison Channel, from Armature Works to the Channel District. It links Curtis Hixon Park, the Tampa Museum of Art, the Straz Center and the Florida Aquarium, with busts of local historical figures along the way.