Fantastic place that is easy to spot but easy to miss. If you have a few hours to kill this place is fab. Also a great place to go if it starts to rain as it's all inside the upsidedown building.

My daughter was 5 and thought this place fab as there are plenty of hands on things to do... the bubble making is great fun!

Definitely worth a trip and a place we will revisit. I have heard they do an evening magic show so we will also check that out next time!

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Right from the beginning, WonderWorks will captivate you with their story as to why the building is upside-down. Appearently, the building used to be a top-secret laboratory located in the Bermuda Triangle. A horrible man-made tornado then ripped it from the ground and carried it to Orlando, Florida, where it sits today. Strangely enough, after the long journey inside a tornado, the building and exhibits are intact. And although the building is upside down, all the exhibits are right-side up - go figure.

The Orlando location is located on International Drive and open daily from 9am to midnight. The ticket prices at the door are $18.95 for adults and $12.95 for children ages 4 to 12 (Florida tax not included). The WonderWorks web site does offer a printable coupon for $1.50 off admission. Be sure to allow pop-ups.

From the outside, this upside-down building is something to really look at, but once inside, you are introduced to over 100 interactive exhibits. Orlandoinfo.com calls WonderWorks "an amusement park for the mind."

Inside the building, you can experience everything from a man-made 5.3 San Francisco earthquake to creating your own roller coaster, then riding it in a 360-degree pitch-and-roll virtual ride. As I mentioned before, they have a speed pitch exhibit. This is nothing more than a bullpen set up inside with a radar gun. It gives some of us former baseball players a chance to remember that we are not as young as we once were. Be careful where you lay down, though - you may be sleeping on 3,500 sharp nails in the "Bed of Nails" exhibit. And the entire trip would not be complete without visiting the one experiment that brought the entire laboratory to us in the first place, "Tornado."

This is a destination that people of all ages can enjoy. From young to "not so young anymore," you are sure to have a wonderful experience while at WonderWorks!

Please review our other "Orlando Tourist Destinations Other Than Disney" journals: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! and Wet 'n Wild.

We had a half day to kill and wanted to avoid the crowds (and prices) of Disney and Universal, so we decided to check out Wonderworks, and boy, are we glad we did! It cost about $16 (adult regular price) to get in before our $2-off coupon and we had an entire afternoon of fun and entertainment. We didn't have any kids with us and are both 30-something and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. However, all the kids around seemed to be really enjoying themselves also.

It's hard to explain what this place is, but I'll give it a try. First of all, the building is "upside down," which is interesting in itself. The building is filled with all types of fun and interesting educational interactive displays. I'll just give an example of some of the ones that stood out: a giant bubble-making machine, an earthquake simulator, a bed of nails that you can lay on (I had on a thin shirt and this one hurt just a tiny bit), a bunch of different types of simulation games, a lot of informational games and quizzes about earth and science (they are all very fun and interesting), a roller-coaster simulator, and SO much more. There were so many things that it's overwhelming to try to describe them. The nice thing is that there are so many different interactive displays that you can spend your time on the ones that interest you. It's somewhat like an exploratorium, only a little less scientific and more fun and interesting. I would love to go back and visit if we are back in Orlando!

The facility is built with three or four floors of varying hands-on activities for children of all ages. It's like a working museum with science experiments explained as they occur around you. This place is not dull but loads of fun. You can buy a meal ticket with the admission ticket for all-you-can-eat-and-drink pizza, soda, wine, and beer.

Wonderworks is a great alternative for those days when you don't want the hustle or bustle of the main parks in the Orlando area, or you are looking for something to do on a rainy day.

The attraction is not hard to spot, as it is the only upside down building in the City! If you drive along Intern'l Drive, you can't miss it. But just to be sure you can find it and what it has to offer, click on this link: Woderworks.

The best place to park is in the adjacent parking garage. It's an hourly rate thing, but worth it for the convenience.

The interactive games are a riot, especially Lazer Tag. When we played, and they posted the scores for all to see, we all had a good laugh when mom had zero, zip, natta points. Can you believe that, she played the whole game and did not score a point! She got her revenge though when she took the prize on the Buzz Lightyear Ride at the Magic Kingdom (i.e. Galactic Warrior).

You can easily spend a few hours at Wonderworks. Be a kid and have fun!