Once, an Englishman wanted to build a big Ferris wheel as high as a twenty-storied building. He wanted it placed in a park called the Prater in Vienna, Austria. Safety engineers checked the plans...
THE MAGIC KINGDOM
How would you like to visit a fairy-tale castle? It's right out of the pages of the story, "Cinderella." This castle is in Walt Disney World in Florida---a place where the land of make- believe comes...
CARNIVAL IN COPENHAGEN
> The Chinese Pagoda Restaurant in Tivoli Gardens > > Tivoli Gardens at night > A balloon seller in Tivoli Gardens In the daytime, the Tivoli in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a shady park where yon...
FUN ON WATER
> Visitors can look through glass in the bottom of this boat as thev > cruise down the Weeki-Wacki Riser in Florida. In Weeki-Wacki Springs, Florida, you can be an underwater explorer and not even...
A HOUSE FOR SONGS
> Opera lovers watch an opera performed at La Scala Opera House. La Scala in Milan, Italy, is a house built for singing---an opera house. It is built on the same ground where the Church of Santa...
PLAY TIME IN ENGLAND
> The birthplace of William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon, England Many people say that Shakespeare's poems and plays are the best ever written. If you visit Stratford-upon-Avon, England, you...
JUST FOR FUN
What kind of place do you think is most fun? A place where you can ride a giant Ferris wheel? Or a place where you can ride in a boat down a jungle river? Or a place that makes you feel like a giant?...
A HIGHWAY OVER WATER
There is a highway in Louisiana that you can ride on for 24 miles (39 kilometers) and see nothing but water on both sides. It goes right across the middle of Lake Pontchartrain, the largest lake in...
LINKS TO LAND
When yon travel from place to place and rivers and lakes get in the way, you can go across by boat, or go around them, or go over a bridge. People build bridges to make it easier to travel from place...
WHERE OCEANS MEET
> What's the shortest sea route between New York City and San Francisco? > Through the Panama Canal! The locks of the Panama Canal let water in or out to raise or lower ships. Before the canal was...
