Please see our links for lists of restaurants, hotels, activities and other fun things to do in town! Looking for something specific — like a Somali Restaurant, a Whiskey Bar or a Comedy Club? Check out ColumbusAlive for a comprehensive list of things to do, restaurants, bars and other fun stuff in CBus that we probably forgot to list! These are just our personal recs!
Weekend Grooves
The Weekends Are Packed With Things to Do (Updates Every Weekend)!
Where to Visit
- Actors’ Theatre of Columbus
- American Whistle Corporation
- Anthony-Thomas Chocolates
- BalletMet
- Bicentennial Park (Swinging Benches! Kayaking! Sculptures and Fountains! Right Downtown and SO Cute! SWINGING. BENCHES.)
- Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (A GIANT collection of comics, including all of Calvin & Hobbes archived original comics!!!)
- Broadway in Columbus
- CAPA – Columbus Association for the Performing Arts
- Cinemark 12 (Discount movie theater)
- Columbus Children’s Theatre
- Columbus Metropolitan Library (#1 Library System in the Country!)
- Columbus Museum of Art (free on Sundays)
- Columbus Symphony
- Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (Rated Several Times the #1 Zoo in the Country!)
- COSI – Center of Science and Industry
- Dawes Arboretum
- Early Television Museum
- Franklin Park Conservatory
- Funny Bone
- Hoover Dam
- The Jack Nicklaus Museum
- Jazz Arts Group
- Jacquemin Farms
- Lynd Fruit Farm (Beautiful Apples!)
- Ohio Historical Society (Beautiful Recreations and Fun Events!)
- The Ohio State Planetarium
- Opera Columbus
- Park of Roses (In Our Own Neighborhood!)
- Perkins Observatory
- PromoWest (5 venues)
- Shadowbox Live
- Skylab
- Victorian Village
- The Topiary Park (MUST SEE. A 7-acre park next to Ohio School for the Deaf that honors artists with beautiful topiary gardens, including Georges Seurat’s famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grand Jatte recreated in topiary.)
- Wexner Center for the Arts (free Thursdays 4-8PM)