Riders enjoy the slide down Wet Willy's in St. Charles after its opening on June 9, 1978. Post-Dispatch photo by Sam Leone. The first water slide ... a shallow pool. The ride takes about 30 ...

Wonka’s energy does bubble ... Ticket winners on a psychedelic boat ride down the Chocolate River. Often referred to as simply the “scary tunnel” scene, Wilder’s mania grows with every ...

The addition of LEDs to this black hole water slide in Bremerhaven, Germany’s Bad 1 Water Park results in something that looks, and we imagine feels, like something straight out of a Kubrick film.

Fifty years this ago this week, Willy Wonka and ... quite possibly to his death. Wonka then takes the living children and their guardians into a freakish, pitch-black tunnel where he ignores ...