Chronicles, deep dives, history records, and behind the scenes of various amusement attractions including amusement parks, haunt entertainment, carnivals, circus, theme park rides, and any other related attractions.
Specific mentions on Busch Gardens, Kings Dominion, Howl O Scream (hi Ripper Row & Sideshow Square), Epcot’s Rhine River Cruise and Horizons, It’s A Small World, Chippewa Lake Park, Ringling Bros, Verbolten, and Flight of Fear guaranteed.
Check out the most popular amusement attractions on the Carousel:
Buckroe Beach Park: Hampton’s Forgotten Amusement Park Revisited
Inside Busch Gardens Williamsburg’s Verbolten
Behind the Scenes of Howl O Scream: Sideshow Square
For travel guides on how to make the most of your trip to one of these amusements, hop on over to the Travel archive for trip tips. If you would like to enjoy these attractions at home, take a peek at the Lifestyle archive.
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A carousel blog’s obligatory carousel post because carousels aren’t the exact same thing as merry go rounds. So similar, yet still different.
Carousel stop: carousels, carrousels, & merry go rounds
A theme park is an amusement park but an amusement park is not a theme park. So, what’s the difference between a theme park and an amusement park?
Carousel stop: park semantics
Ranking all Disney World roller coasters, from Space Mountain to Expedition Everest, to find out which is truly the wildest ride in the wilderness.
Carousel stop: Most Magical Coasters On Earth
Drop Tower, Carousel, Dodgem… Kings Dominion’s real crafty with their names, right? I’ll be fair, there’s also Bad Apple, Arachnidia, Boo Blasters, and more we’re covering in this Kings Dominion rides guide!
Carousel stop: Delirium
The Isar, the Tauber, the Ruhr, and the Rhine… the forgotten fairytale of Epcot Center with a very Brothers Grimm ending.
Carousel stop: Rhine River Cruise
*Warning* This is the most comprehensive piece you are going to read about this ride. Details not posted elsewhere. Details totaling 10k words. Godspeed.