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Ride the Sun!

  • February 18, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

California’s famous Santa Monica Pier is home to the world’s first (and only) solar-powered Ferris wheel, the Pacific Wheel. The nine-story tourist attraction debuted in 1998.

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