The largest of Walt Disney World's four theme parks by area, covering approximately 580 acres, Disney's Animal Kingdom opened on 22 April 1998 as a combination of zoological park, botanical garden, and themed ride experience. The park is anchored by the 44-metre-tall Tree of Life, an artificial baobab tree whose trunk is carved with over 300 animal forms and which houses the It's Tough to be a Bug 4D theatre attraction. The park is divided into themed lands: Discovery Island at the centre, Afri.....

Originally opened on 1 May 1989 as Disney-MGM Studios, this 135-acre theme park at Walt Disney World celebrates the worlds of cinema, television, music, and theatre through immersive themed environments and ride attractions. The park was rebranded as Disney's Hollywood Studios in 2008, and a series of major expansions in the late 2010s transformed it from a half-day park into a full-day destination anchored by two blockbuster lands. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, opened in August 2019, recreates the.....

Themed as a tropical paradise devastated by a typhoon that left a shrimp boat impaled atop a volcanic peak, this 61-acre water park at Walt Disney World opened on 1 June 1989 and remains one of the most visited water parks in the world. The elaborate backstory explains every design element: uprooted palm trees, storm-scattered surfboards, and a tangle of fishing nets and buoys create a meticulously distressed tropical environment that belies the precision engineering beneath. The centrepiece is.....

Walt Disney's final and most ambitious conceptual project, EPCOT opened on 1 October 1982 as the second theme park at Walt Disney World. The name originally stood for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, reflecting Disney's unrealised vision of a functioning planned city. The park that emerged after his death in 1966 reinterpreted the concept as a permanent world's fair celebrating human achievement, technology, and international culture across 305 acres. The park is divided into two t.....

Disney believed in the concept enough to buy 12 percent of the company before a single wall went up. House of Blues Orlando, at 1490 East Buena Vista Drive in the Disney Springs West Side at Walt Disney World, opened on 15 September 1997 as the sixth and largest House of Blues - and it remains one of Florida's premier club-scale concert venues. The building plays its part: a rambling, rusted-tin bayou lodge that looks airlifted from the Mississippi Delta, wrapped around a music hall whose walls.....

Centred on a soaring fairy-tale castle, the Magic Kingdom was the first of the theme parks to open at Walt Disney World in Florida. It remains the most visited theme park anywhere in the world. The park opened in 1971 as the heart of the new resort, modelled on the original Disneyland in California but built on a far larger scale. Its opening transformed the quiet countryside near Orlando. At its centre stands Cinderella Castle, a tall, slender palace of pale stone and blue spires that serves .....

Spread across an area the size of a small city, the Walt Disney World Resort is one of the most visited holiday destinations on earth. It draws tens of millions of visitors each year to its parks, hotels and entertainment. The resort opened in 1971 with a single theme park, and has grown steadily ever since into a vast world of its own. It covers tens of square kilometres of central Florida near the city of Orlando. Today it is made up of four large theme parks, two water parks, dozens of hote.....