Nothing beats the adrenaline rush after riding a well-designed roller coaster. And luckily, Florida is home to some of the best. But which ones are considered the top for thrill seekers? USA TODAY's ...

17-year-old Jake McCluskey has managed to live out the dream of countless childhoods, after building his own roller coaster in his backyard. The roller coaster, which takes up the whole of his 24 feet ...

I like to say that the strange and fun vehicles we dredge up each week for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column cover everything on land, sea, and even in the air. But every ...

Kingda Ka, the 'King of Coasters" story continues after all. The former Six Flags Great Adventure roller coaster in Jackson, N.J., has found a new home in West Texas thanks to a dedicated three-man ...

One of the world's longest indoor roller coasters is coming to Epcot, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World. According to a Disney Parks' blog post Sunday, the long-anticipated ...

One of the first “roller-coaster” rides in the U.S. was actually a short coal railway in Pennsylvania that hauled coal downhill between mines and used mules to bring the empty cars back up the hill.

I filmed my front row ride on Iron Gwazi at Busch Gardens Tampa, and it’s easy to see why this is one of my absolute favorite ...

Derek and Doug Perry got bit by the roller coaster bug early. "Our mom really loves roller coasters," Derek recalled. "On our summer vacations, we would hop in the van, and we would go driving around ...

Scott Brazelton was going to build a treehouse for his three-year-old, Wyatt. But then he stumbled upon a YouTube video by Paul Gregg, an engineer who built his grandkids a backyard roller coaster, ...

Central Florida is on a roll with its coasters. Epcot’s new Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind ride marks the fifth addition to the local lineup in the past year, and according to the online ...

(WHTM) — Roller coasters are fast and fun ways to make people laugh, scream and have a good time. Pennsylvania is home to a very diverse collection of these scream machines – including many that are ...