In 1970 the "Land Of Oz" theme park opened in Beach Mountain, North Carolina. It was abandoned from 1980 until 2016, and was pretty much quite creepily still intact until then.
The Board of Supervisors at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette have voted to allow the University to sell the land on Johnston St., "The Horse Farm," to the city of Lafayette in exchange for a Youth Park. The land the University is willing to sell sits on 100 acres with the "heart" of Lafayette...
An Ohio couple decided the best way to kick off the thrill ride that is matrimony is to get hitched atop a roller coaster with their friends and family in the cars behind them.
And since they had already strayed so far from a traditional ceremony, they decided they may as well also have an Elvis impersonator officiate their big day, too.