As plans for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago took shape, there was ... “Too fragile,” he said. Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel. In fact, a carpenter named ...

This one features a star shape, which lights up at night. The Suzhou Ferris Wheel sits along Jinji Lake in China's Jiangsu Province. This Ferris wheel reaches nearly 400 feet into the sky and can ...