The Greensboro Science Center is an unusual combination: a hands-on science museum, a small but well-stocked aquarium with sharks and an open-air ray-petting pool, an outdoor wildlife park with tigers, lemurs, and meerkats, and a digital planetarium. The complex sits on a wooded site north of downtown.
A reliable family destination, especially good on a hot afternoon when the indoor exhibits and the outdoor zoo can be alternated. Plan three to four hours.