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Discover the magic with Crayola.

You Have to See It to Believe It

Summer 2022

There are so many things to discover! Many you must see to believe!

Discover the magic of color with over 20 hands-on creative activities that combine color, chemistry and digital technology for a day of colorful family fun at Crayola Experience. See the World’s largest Crayola crayon, personalize your own custom Crayola crayon, star in your own coloring page, learn how crayons are made in a live manufacturing show, create melted wax spin art and more! Even learn the real source behind your favorite Crayola products at Outside the Box.

WonderWorks Orlando is sure to WOW guests of all ages. The grandiose, eye-catching upside-down house on I-Drive has helped visitors and locals “let their imaginations run wild” for 24 years now, and it’s not stopping anytime soon. Dubbed as “edu-tainment,” WonderWorks is an indoor amusement park for the mind, filled with over 100+ interactive, hands-on exhibits. From its iconic Bubble Lab where Guests can enclose themselves in life-size bubbles to the epic Bed of Nails where Guests can lay on 3,500 steel nails and not get hurt, there’s something exciting around every corner to spark the imagination in everyone.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, be sure that an illusion hides more than a million. Enter the fascinating world of illusions which will trick your confidence in senses but, amaze you by doing it; the world that will confuse you completely, but also educate you. With over 50 exhibits, Museum of Illusions Orlando offers more mind-twisting, eye-tricking fun under one roof than any other edutainment destination in Central Florida.

At Madame Tussauds, they specialize in masterpieces you have to see to believe! It takes a team of about 20 artists almost six months to complete one of their wax figures using hundreds of precise measurements and color matches to create a perfect likeness. Artists use many of the same techniques that Marie Tussaud used over 250 years ago when she started this legacy. Experience fame like never before and grab the ultimate selfie at the world’s greatest wax museum, Madame Tussauds. You have to see it to believe it!

This Summer come visit Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Let curiosity be your guide as you experience this amazingly unique (completely renovated) museum. Explore the world through hundreds of fascinating exhibits. Get hands on with entertaining interactives, and marvel at some of the strangest art in the world.

You won’t want to miss the newest galleries: Weird Florida, Egypt Gallery and Crime & Punishment. Then make your way back to the Dance Party and meet some of the most interesting “people” from around the world. Stop at the Wax Hands exhibit to create the most unique art worthy keepsake to take home with you.

Gatorland®, the "Alligator Capital of the World," has been providing the most unique “seeing is believing” experiences since 1949. Young children love Gatorland's petting zoo, free flight aviary, train ride and Gator Gully Splash Park. Adventure seekers enjoy the Screamin' Gator Zip Line with over 1,200 feet of high-flying thrills over alligators and the Stompin’ Gator Off-Road Adventure, which takes Guests in monster-style off-road vehicles to venture over hills, mud puddles and a pond full of alligators.

Fun for everyone to be had at the alligator breeding marsh and signature shows like Gator Jumparoo and Up-Close Encounters. You just have to see it all to believe it at Gatorland!