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Buckle up for a $60-dollar ride, created by a Disney-General Motors partnership. Riders in a six-passenger convertible car are taken through exhilarating brake tests, S-curves, and a 12-second, 65-mph (104-kmph) burst of speed. You must be at least 40 inches (102 cm) tall to ride.

A refrigerator that can compile a grocery list and a toilet seat with a built-in warmer are among the “smart” furnishings in the House of Innoventions exhibit. Kids like this pavilion’s Internet Zone with games such as virtual tag.

Few can resist Video Games of Tomorrow, a Sega presentation that lets visitors try out next generation games. In the same pavilion, Medicine’s New Vision is an exhibit that offers video games along a medical theme.

Come face to face with sharks, barracudas, manatees, and more on a cinematic journey to an undersea laboratory. There are several hands-on exhibits including a deep sea diving suit that can be tried on.

A show-and-ride focusing on themes from “fossil fuel” dinosaurs to future energy concerns.

Get ready to flinch during the Imagination Pavilion’s larger-than-life film show. Seats vibrate as you’re terrorized by giant mice. The family cat and dog, and a colossal 5-year-old also loom large before you “escape.”

Hold tight as this Wonders of Life Pavilion show “reduces” you to the size of a cell for a shake, rattle, and roll rescue mission inside a human body (40-inch/102-cm minimum height).

This popular thrill ride takes you on a journey to space with a crash landing on Mars. It is intense and not for anyone prone to motion sickness, or sensitive to tight spaces, loud noises or spinning. If you don’t go on the “Mission” you can enjoy interactive games at the “Advance Training Lab.”

The ride inside is nothing to write home about. But, this giant golf ball – actually a 180-ft (55-m) geosphere – is an engineering marvel, made of 11,324 triangular aluminum panels that absorb the rain rather than letting it run off.

The best of the vast Land Pavilion’s exhibits involves a boat ride through rain forest, desert, and prairie biomes. It’s followed by a look at agricultural experiments including hydroponics and growing plants in simulated Martian soil.