Discovery Place & the Nature Museum
Discovery Place is one of the top hands-on science and technology museums in the region. This uptown center features such permanent exhibits as a tropical rain forest and an aquarium. There's also an OMNIMAX theater. The static-electricity demonstration, which literally makes your hair stand on end, is a perennial favorite. Temporary exhibits on loan from other science centers keep the place forever changing.

Mint Museum of Art
With the recently added Dalton Wing, this stately museum displays a fine survey of European and American art, as well as the internationally recognized Delhom Collection of porcelain and pottery. Also featured are pre-Columbian art, contemporary American prints, African objects, vast collections of costumes and antique maps, and gold coins originally minted at the facility. New galleries exhibit studio glass and pottery from North Carolina studios. An admission ticket also gains you admittance to the Mint Museum of Craft & Design (220 N. Tryon St.).

Wing Haven Gardens & Bird Sanctuary
Since 1927, one of Charlotte's special attractions, created by Elizabeth and Edwin Clarkson, has been a 3-acre enclosed area in the heart of a residential neighborhood. Mrs. Clarkson was known as the city's "bird lady." Some 142 winged species have been sighted in the walled garden, which was once a bare clay field. Birders and garden lovers will have a field day as they browse through the Upper, Lower, Main, Wild, Herb, and Rose gardens. The gardens are at their most splendid in the spring, when birds are returning from their winter migration. A bulletin board tells you which birds are around at the moment.

Doubletree' Hotel Charlotte-Gateway Village
The DoubleTree Hotel Charlotte is conveniently located off I-77(exit 10/10B) in Downtown Charlotte within the Gateway Village Community and the heart of Johnson & Wales University's Charlotte Campus to open in September 2004. The DoubleTree is a 187 room full-service facility just six blocks from the Downtown central business district, four blocks from Bank of America Stadium (home of the Carolina Panther's NFL Team), and one mile from Charlotte Convention ...

The Blake Hotel
The Blake Hotel is a contemporary,designer-style property located in the business district of Charlotte, N.C., six miles from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. The hotel is four blocks from the Convention Center, seven blocks from the Bank of America Stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers, and 15 miles from Lowe's Motor Speedway. Visitors can enjoy films at the IMAX Dome and visit the urban science center at Discovery Place, one mile from the hotel. Paramount's Carowinds Water and ...

Hyatt Summerfield Suites - Charlotte Airport
The Summerfield Suites Charlotte is centrally located just 10 minutes from the Charlotte Douglas Airport - 2 miles from Charlotte Coliseum - 10 minutes from the Paramount Carawinds Amusement Park and 30 minutes from the Charlotte Motor ...