Gardens and Parks

Britain: Horror attraction combines dark ride with haunted maze

2013-05-20 07:00:00

A unique new haunted attraction opening this summer at a small United Kingdom theme park will combine a walk-through horror maze featuring live actors with a dark ride journey inside an abandoned mine shaft. The Hobs Pit maze and ride is set to open...

Go ahead, play with the goblins of Utah

2013-05-12 00:00:00

GOBLIN VALLEY, Utah — "The goblins will get ya if ya don't watch out!" wrote poet James Whitcomb Riley in 1885, probably just about the time that cowboys searching for cattle in southern Utah stumbled into this extraordinary collection of...

Essential track: Glenn Jones debuts 'Across the Tappan Zee' video

2013-05-14 06:30:00

This post has been updated. See below for details. A few months back at Sonos Studio in West Hollywood, guitarist Glenn Jones performed solo work in conjunction with a recently completed documentary on the late guitarist John Fahey. Fahey's ability at...

Q&A: Zach Braff on Kickstarter, indie filmmaking and the skeptics

2013-05-03 13:09:00

Zach Braff made headlines last week when he became one of the first top-tier Hollywood personalities to try -- and succeed in -- financing a movie via Kickstarter. Just a few days after listing his idiosyncratic project “Wish I Was Here,”...

Restored or ruined? Malibu Lagoon project stirs strong opinions

2013-04-29 21:09:00

Before the bulldozers arrived last June, Malibu Lagoon was a fully grown habitat for egrets, voles and tidewater gobies, studded with sycamore trees and clusters of tule reeds. Today, the lagoon's islands appear almost barren, covered by a sea of tiny red...

It's time for a water coaster in Southern California

2013-04-30 08:00:00

Southern California is long overdue for a water coaster. For the uninitiated, a water coaster is a water park slide that mimics the ups and downs of a traditional roller coaster with the help of conveyor belts, water jets or magnetic propulsion....

Top 20 water parks in the world

2013-04-30 07:15:00

By now, everybody knows what to expect from your standard-issue ho-hum water park: body and tube slide complexes with funnels and bowls, deluge-inducing water play towers for the little ones, undulating wave pools and relaxing lazy rivers. Photos: 20...

What may come to Wizarding World of Harry Potter 2.0 at Universal Orlando

2013-05-09 07:45:00

After a year of construction, Universal Orlando� has finally admitted that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter will expand in 2014 with a detailed re-creation of London's Diagon Alley from the wildly popular series of books and movies. Photos: Top 10...

Legoland Hotel is built, brick by brick, with kids in mind

2013-04-28 00:00:00

CARLSBAD, Calif. — The Legoland Hotel, which opened April 5, got plenty of little things wrong in its first weeks. But its designers got one thing enormously right, and that will make this place a screaming success: kid-centricity. "The dragon...

Amphitheatre to close, make room for Harry Potter attraction

2013-04-25 05:00:00

First they put a lid on it, and now they're pulling the plug. Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre, a fixture on the Southern California live music scene for more than 40 years, will close in September and be demolished to make room for the new...

Disneyland's Space Mountain remains closed for safety repairs

2013-04-25 14:35:00

Disneyland's Space Mountain remains closed for safety repair work, two weeks after state regulators cited the park for hazards to maintenance workers on the outside of the attraction. Disneyland officials, who said they have no estimate on when the ride...

Gibson Amphitheatre to close, make room for Harry Potter attraction

2013-04-24 12:45:00

A celebrated musical venue will close at Universal City to make way for a new magical venue. The Gibson Amphitheatre, a 6,100-seat hall that has hosted the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, will close in September, clearing...

The 267-acre Haley Farm State Park in Groton dates to 1648 when Connecticut's first governor, John Winthrop Jr., owned a portion of the fields that extend to Palmer's Cove with views to Long Island Sound and Fishers Island Sound.

2013-05-20 13:37:00

This national park in Tajikistan, which lies in Eastern Europe and borders China, encompasses one of the world's most tectonically-active regions in the world. It also contains the world's highest natural dam, behind which Lake Sarez (pictured) lies, and some of the world's deepest gorges.

2013-05-13 15:32:54

Visitors in 2009 (through August): 732,407 Arches National Park features more than 2,000 sandstone arches carved by millions of years of erosion. Prominent formations in the park include Delicate Arch, Balanced Rock and Landscape Arch.

2013-05-13 09:50:00