Las Vegas is adding an eye-catching tourist attraction, in the form of a huge wheel that can take more than 1,000 people on a ride 550 feet into the sky over the city's famed Strip. The main ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ferris wheels have been popular since George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a 33-year-old engineer, designed one for the 1893 World's ...

Next to the roller coaster, no ride is more associated with an amusement park than the Ferris wheel. These large circular structures remain a signature attraction in amusement parks throughout the ...

Iron workers Joe Fritz and Brian Jasper work to open the spokes on the Ferris wheel at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport on Wednesday, April 16, 2014. The crew working on the new attraction began to ...

Is a bridge in northern Indiana built from the ruins of the very first Ferris wheel? In 1893, Chicago was hoping to make an attraction that would surpass the Eiffel Tower's success at the Paris ...

Ferris wheels have been popular since George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a 33-year-old engineer, designed one for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. More than a century later, we still ...