# Touristy things you went to that don't exist any more **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 14, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073 "2026-05-14T17:32:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/81 "2026-05-14T23:30:58Z")
Oh man, I must have blocked that memory. Silver Springs was keen. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/82 "2026-05-14T23:44:31Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > There will be a mention in the Hall Of Fame to any Dopers that visited New Jersey’s Action Park. I may be wrong, but I think @What_Exit once wrote that he’d been there. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/83 "2026-05-14T23:47:18Z")
Personally, I never visited Action Park but remember seeing commercials for it on the New York television channels. (We were in Connecticut so it was close enough to visit but I didn’t.) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/84 "2026-05-14T23:51:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > (We were in Connecticut so it was close enough to visit but I didn’t.) And I’ll bet you still have all your limbs! ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/85 "2026-05-15T00:23:44Z")
I went and did some reading about “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience” and discovered it used the same theater as Captain EO. I also saw Captain EO on my first trip to Disney in the early 1990s, so I’ve actually been to two defunct EPCOT attractions in the same theater. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/86 "2026-05-15T00:24:08Z")
The Lodge on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/87 "2026-05-15T00:32:11Z")
Oh yeah, there was a crappy little amusement park on I-5 between Eugene and Portland called the Enchanted Forest. Even as a child I found it distinctly underwhelming, ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/88 "2026-05-15T00:34:21Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I also saw Captain EO on my first trip to Disney in the early 1990s, so I’ve actually been to two defunct EPCOT attractions in the same theater. I don’t remember if Captain EO was 4-D or not but it seems like they revamp and/or close their 4-D attractions more often than their other ones. Not only Honey I Shrunk The Audience, but also Bug’s Life in Animal Kingdom has been reworked into a Zootopia theme, and in Hollywood Studios, MuppetVision 4-D is being rethemed also. MuppetVision is the most unique 4-D attraction I’ve been on since they did truly ground breaking things that other places didn’t do, like have a cast member come out at one point, and have the 3-D on the screen interact very convincingly with an animatronic Statler and Waldorf. It seems like other 4-d places tried to accomplish the same thing but not as seamlessly and also tried to make everything so dark that your mind filled in the blanks rather than took the time to create a convincing experience. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/89 "2026-05-15T00:44:49Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I don’t remember if Captain EO was 4-D I don’t think it was. In my memory it was just a 3D movie with a lot of special effects. I’m guessing they revamped the space into a 4D theater after Captain EO closed. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/90 "2026-05-15T00:49:24Z")
Went to these growing up in Southern California: Marineland of the Pacific, Jungleland, Santa’s Village. Alligator Farm. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/91 "2026-05-15T00:51:15Z")
On the topic of bygone Disneyland rides, mention needs to be made of the Tomorrowland Murder Carousel - AKA _Carousel of Progress_ and _America Sings_. > [On July 8, 1974](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Sings), nine days after the attraction opened, an 18-year-old hostess named Deborah Gail Stone was accidentally crushed to death between two walls of the building…One of the audience members heard Stone’s screams and notified park staff. Others thought it was a part of the show. By the time the audience member and the staff got to her, she had already died from her injuries. I rode the carousel with friends many times before and after the accident. After, mostly to sate the morbid curiosity of 11-year-olds. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/92 "2026-05-15T00:55:00Z")
Given that the accident happened in nearly the first week of something that ran for decades, nearly everyone who ever rode it, rode it after. Whether they knew that or not is a separate issue. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/93 "2026-05-15T00:58:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Given that the accident happened in nearly the first week of something that ran for decades, nearly everyone who ever rode it, rode it after. The Carousel was there for seven years before the accident as the Carousel of Progress. The accident happened nine days after it was re-dressed as America Sings. Same “ride”; just rethemed, Even as a 10 year-old I knew that set up was an accident waiting to happen. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/94 "2026-05-15T01:00:41Z")
Oh. I screwed that up. Thanks for setting me straight. I recall riding it several times as Carousel of Progress, but I doubt I did as America Sings. And yeah, that giant set of scissors as those two walls passed each other looked like a dangerous idea. Which is probably why by and large there were no live cast up on stage. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/95 "2026-05-15T01:04:47Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I doubt I did as America Sings You didn’t miss anything; just a bunch of animals singing corny old songs. We wouldn’t have ridden it more than once if someone hadn’t died there. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/96 "2026-05-15T01:12:12Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > The new Meijer store just opened this week, at the previous location of [Geauga Lake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geauga_Lake) in Ohio Which was right across the lake from Sea World Ohio, too. Both were a lot of fun. Do now-replaced stadiums count? I went to Municipal Stadium three or four times, before it got torn down and rebuilt. And if individual amusement park rides count, Cedar Point had several that are now gone. Avalanche Run got enhanced and turned into Disaster Transport, before that got removed entirely to make room for Gatekeeper, and there was another small roller coaster called Wildcat that’s also gone, that I don’t know what they put in its place. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/97 "2026-05-15T01:15:50Z")
We stayed for a week-end at a private recreation area in Maggie Valley, right across the road from a long-abandoned amusement park. My brother-in-law remembered going to it years ago, and explored the ruins while we were there. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/98 "2026-05-15T01:16:18Z")
When I was around 6 or 7 years old my parents took me to a local amusement park here in Ohio called [LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeSourdsville_Lake_Amusement_Park). I remember riding the small rollercoaster. When I was a preteen my aunt took me to **Marineland of the Pacific** , which has already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/99 "2026-05-15T01:27:29Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > The Lodge on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Ouch, good one. I never visited them, but [the Georgia Guidestones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones) got blown up. The Love Locks on the [Pont des Arts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_des_Arts) were removed by the city because the weight was destroying the bridge. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073/100 "2026-05-15T01:40:56Z")
> [@themapleleaf](#): > > . In 2024, the monumental original 1960s brutalist building was closed because the Ontario government claimed it was in need of repairs. Since then, the exhibits have been housed in vacated mall spaces, I’m sorry to hear that. It was one of the highlights of visiting Toronto. I’ve been at least three times that I can remember: once while in high school in the late 70s, again in the late 80s as a newlywed, and then in the late 2000s with my kids. It ranked up there with the Boston Science Museum. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touristy-things-you-went-to-that-dont-exist-any-more/1030073.md?page=6)