• Introduction
• 1. Atlantic City
• 2. Coney Island
• 3. Kemah
• 4. Mission Beach
• 5. Ocean City, MD
• 6. Ocean City, NJ
• 7. Rehoboth Beach
• 8. Santa Cruz
• 9. Venice
• 10. Virginia Beach

Coney Island

Today’s most-celebrated amusement parks owe their existence to the pioneering rides and spectacles that turned New York's Coney Island into America’s premier playground in the early 20th century. Saunter along the stroller-friendly Riegelmann Boardwalk, which runs 2.7 miles from Coney Island to Brighton Beach, and you’ll see classic attractions like the colossal Wonder Wheel, the now-defunct Parachute Jump (aka Brooklyn’s Eiffel Tower), and the rickety, wooden-railed Cyclone roller coaster, opened in 1926 and now operated by Astroland amusement park. While Astroland is slated for a glitzy, multi-billion dollar redevelopment that will inevitably destroy much of its historic and faded charm, the neighboring boardwalk – romanticized in The Drifters’ 1964 chart-topper "Under the Boardwalk" – will continue to age gracefully.

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