The term theme park was first coined with the opening of Disneyland because the thing that Walt Disney had created was so significantly different from the amusement parks that had pre-dated it, the ...

Wonder Wheel in Luna Park. Its an amusement park in Coney Island opened on May 29,2010 at the former site of Astroland,named after original park from 1903. Amusement Park,Coney Island,Brooklyn,New ...

For Springfield residents of a certain age, the cackling laugh of Giggling Gertie cascading over the rolling hills at Doling Park remains a vivid memory. The animatronic old woman sat outside one of ...

Universal Studios is part amusement park, part pop culture experience. It often gets lumped in with Disney since there's a park in Orlando and one in Los Angeles, but it's an entirely different ...