The 50 Most Unique Roller Coasters Ever Built (Amazing Roller Coasters)

Tired of the same old, rickety wooden roller coasters? Crave more thrills than the typical vertical loops and camelback hills found at every local amusement park? Fortunately, roller coasters come in a mind-blowing profusion of styles, shapes, and sizes. From innovative track designs to unusual seating configurations, from ridiculous locations to bizarre theming, the experience never gets old.

In The 50 Most Unique Roller Coasters Ever Built you’ll explore a roller coaster...
...powered by people
....inspired a popular computer game
....uses a Ferris wheel as a lift
....requires an on-board brakeman
....where the louder you scream the faster you go
....built on top of a skyscraper
....known as the “dog fart” coaster (yes, you read that right!).

The 50 Most Unique Roller Coasters Ever Built is a list comprised of unusual, rare, and hard to find scream machines.

New 3rd Edition Updates

• Now with more than 50 unique roller coasters!
• Updated stats and information
• 10 unique coasters added
• More pictures
• Peak into the future of roller coaster including new for 2023 coasters

There are three versions of 50 Unique Coasters:

• Kindle: color pictures, automatic updates when a new edition is released
• Paperback: black and white images to keep costs down
• Hardcover: black and white images to keep costs down

Nick Weisenberger is the author of Coasters 101: An Engineer's Guide to Roller Coaster Design and Steam Trains and Monorails: The Best of America's Theme Parks. Catch him on the Coaster101 Podcast.

Nick Weisenberger is the author of six books about roller coasters and extreme thrill rides, including Coasters 101: An Engineer's Guide to Roller Coaster Design.