stackyFACTSLong before airports used them to blindly shuffle exhausted travelers between terminals, the "Wooden Serpent" was a marvel of the 1900 World's Fair. It featured a stationary path, a slow lane, and a terrifying "fast" lane moving at 5 mph. Over 7 million people rode it, mostly without face-planting.
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