Panama City Beach, USA-February 10, 2013: WonderWorks is a stunningly beautiful fun-loving museum and amusement park on Front Beach Road in Panama City Beach Florida

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WonderWorks


Designed to look like an upside-down building (complete with an upside-down lawn and palm trees), this wacky interactive museum and fun center is impossible to miss (even if you want to). While hands-on exhibits like a spinning g-force bike, an obstacle climbing course and virtual-reality soccer may give some grown-ups a migraine, kids will have a blast: literally, in the case of the laser-tag maze (extra $7).


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