SCARIEST ROLLERCOASTER RIDES

Be afraid, be very afraid. Some rollercoaster rides can scare the bejeesus out of you. They are not for the faint-hearted. Here are some of the world's greatest - and scariest - rollercoasters: Kingda Ka Six Flags Great Adventure Jackson, N.J. Open: April to October The fastest roller coaster in the world goes from 0 to 128 miles an hour, straight up, like a rocket, then down 41 stories, twisting in a 270-degree spiral. Total time: 28 seconds. Are you scared yet? Top Thrill Dragster Cedar Point Sandusky, Ohio Open: May to October The scariest of Cedar Point's many coasters, the Top Thrill Dragster boasts a drop of 400 feet, speeds up to 120 mph and has a $25 million price tag. Like Kingda Ka, it too lasts about half a minute. Superman: The Escape Six Flags Magic Mountain Valencia, California Open: all year; weekends in the winter months On this $20 million monster, riders shoot up 415 feet on two parallel tracks at a maximum speed of 100 mph. The way down is accompanied by 6.5 seconds of weightlessness--just like flying with the Caped Crusader. Millennium Force Cedar Point Sandusky, Ohio Open: May to October Another Cedar Point favorite, the Millennium Force hits 93 mph and drops riders 300 feet. Better (or worse) yet, the ride lasts for more than two minutes. Price tag: about $25 million. Goliath Six Flags Magic Mountain Valencia, California Open: all year; weekends in the winter months Opened in 2000, Goliath looks a lot like its Texas brother Titan (including that scary tunnel). Alas, Goliath is only 235 feet tall, 10 feet shorter than Titan. Xcelerator Knott's Berry Farm Buena Park, Calif. Open: every day except Christmas Built in 2002, this hydraulically launched coaster, with 1957-Chevy-style cars, reaches 82 mph--in just 2.3 seconds--and stands 205 feet tall. It serves 1,330 passengers per hour. Nitro Six Flags Great Adventure Jackson, N.J. Open: April to October Plummets 23 stories, reaches 80 mph and lasts for more than two minutes. And if that's not enough to scare you, the cars don't have sides. Desperado Buffalo Bill's Resort & Casino Primm, Nevada Open: all year; closed two days a week in the winter months Seventeen hundred riders per hour take in the desert landscape on this 2:45 ride. They also plunge 225 feet at a frightful 55 degrees. Steel Dragon 2000 With three gi-normous hills and two tunnels, the Steel Dragon 2000 in Nagashima, Japan will eat you up and spit you out. It's the world's longest rollercoaster with 8100 feet (2500 meters) of track and speeds of 95 miles (153 km) per hour. Tower of Terror Bring along some toilet paper for this trip because you could be having a nasty accident in your pants after riding on Australia's most terrifying rollercoaster. The Tower of Terror at Dreamworld in Coomera, Australia drops you from 377 feet (115 meters) at more than 100 miles (160 km) per hour. Colussus Don't eat a big lunch before riding on this coaster because chances are you'll be puking it up all over the guy in the car ahead of you. The Colussus at Thorpe Park in England sends riders upside down a record ten times. The design includes a 90 foot loop and back-to-back corkscrews. Dodonpa The Dodonpa roller coaster in Fujikyu Highland Park in Japan is one of the world's fastest coaster thanks to a specially designed air launch system which has riders going from 0 to 107 miles(172 km) per hour in less than 2 seconds! Riders are sent up a massive hill and then whisked down at a 90 degree angle faster than you can say, "I'm gonna be sick."

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