Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana (bahahaa) announced today that they'll be adding the world's tallest water ride in 2009. The Pilgrim's Plunge uses an "open-air elevator" to lift 10-passenger boats 135 feet in the air. Then...wheee! These videos are cheesy but kinda fun. [AP] more ›

Even though it's been gone for forty-one years, folks who still went to Riverview Amusement Park speak of it with the romanticism afforded looking back at the past with rose-colored glasses. This documentary from 1984, courtesy of Fuzzy Memories, is no exception. Part two can be viewed here. more ›

File this under "good ideas, bad execution." Designer Robert Brindle conceived the idea of an indoor amusement park and shopping mall after a visit to Knott's Berry Farm. Brindle's concept was a turn of the century design inside the park, with mom-and-pop stores anchoring the shopping mall instead of the brand name stores normally found in shopping malls. more ›