I've been to this place several times in summer and winter. It's absolutely amazing. The land it's on was just bought by a developer and the whole park will be torn down soon. Sad.

I also have some flickr galleries of the park here, here, and here.

This picture is my favorite because you can see the big tree trunks that have grown up between the coaster planks. It's how the whole world will look when all the humans are gone.

I'm assuming this zoo trains the elephants to paint these scenes, but either way, that's some good eye-trunk coordination.

Oh my god. Those are horrifying.

I think this is the same map featured in the They Might Be Giants video for "Don't Let's Start." I remember hearing they filmed it at the old World's Fairgrounds, and there are a series of shots of John Linnell rolling around on some kind of scooter with the map behind his head starting at :45

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VJQnZZ-Wmao