A top secret research laboratory was ripped from the ground in a tornado and landed upside down on top of a crab shack in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.  Fortunately, all of the experiments remained intact, or at least that is what you are led to believe as you walk into WonderWorks.  This building appears completely inverted and it is filled with over 100 interactive exhibits that include an indoor ropes course, Mind Ball, Rollercoaster Stimulators, and Xtreme 360 Bikes.

     Museum goers will feel as if they are in outer space as they test their balance and coordination in a ropes course that stands 36 feet tall. While walking and climbing over obstacles like lily pads, rope bridges, and crooked balance beams that hang over the exhibits on the floor below people are able to get a bird’s eye view of the museum

     In Mind ball two players compete to try and get a ball to move in their direction by relaxing their mind and using brain waves. The game is based on EEG technology which is actually the same technology that used to train cadets to remain calm in high pressure situations at The United States Military Academy at West Point.

     With the ability to design their own roller coaster riders are able to make it as extreme or relaxed as they want by choosing from obstacles like loops, spirals, humps, banks, and even riding completely upside-down. The stimulator that riders ride in can turn 360 degrees in every direction. There is even a button that riders are able to press that completely stops the stimulator if it gets to intense or claustrophobic and they do not want to finish the ride.

      “Having the button in the stimulator made me feel a lot safer because I had no idea what it was going to be like on the ride,” said Jen Rickey.

     On a two person bike partners try to pedal so that they have enough power to make full loop over the top and then back to the starting position on Xtreme 360 Bikes. On this exhilarating ride riders feel like they are on a pirate ship carnival ride rocking back in forth until one time they do not go back they actually continue forward and loop all the way around.

     After finishing the museum there is a café with food and refreshments. It even has dippin dots which were hard to find anywhere in Myrtle Beach.

      Outside the café there is bar that parents can go to while their kids walk through the museum. To blend their drink at the bar, customers ride a bike that is connected to a blender that blends as they pedal.