In 2010, a Lithuanian artist named Julijonas Urbonas designed the ultimate thrill ride: a steel roller coaster engineered specifically to kill everyone who rides it. He called it the Euthanasia Coaster.

Urbonas, a former amusement park employee and PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London, took inspiration from John Allen, the former president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, who once mused that the "ultimate" roller coaster would be one that "sends out 24 people and they all come back dead." — Read the rest

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