NYC - Brooklyn - Coney Island: Astroland Park - Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno, a dark ride created by Anton Schwarzkopf, replaced the last permanent Coney Island darkride, Flight to Mars, in the early 1970's. When initially opened, the ride featured a "trip to hell", but over the years, the theme became diluted resulting in a fairly standard one-minute and forty-five second dark ride with several stunts with sharp turns and one dip, a third of the way through. Decorated with a purple Cerberus in either tower, a werewolf out of one window, and skeleton warriors in another; its exterior's centerpiece is a large devil holding a victim in his hand that is connecting to the tongue of an upside-down, lolling eyed creature, and a pitchfork in the other. The ride exterior resembles a castle, and its open area is decorated in graffiti style artwork includes Medusa's severed head held by a Grim Reaper, as well as a mad scientist and several dragons.