I'm something of an adrenaline junkie, and even this is a little much for me.
As part of OUE Skyspace LA, a 360-degree observation deck located more than 1,000 feet above downtown Los Angeles, architecture firm Gensler is constructing a clear 45-foot glass slide on the exterior of the US Bank Tower.
The entire project is scheduled for completion on June 25, with tickets for the nausea-inducing slide going on sale shortly after that. All told the experience will cost $33, including $25 to enter Skyspace and $8 to take a three-second ride into oblivion.
The slide's designers say the entire structure is 1.25 inches thick, if that makes you feel any better.
Glass-bottomed designs have been popular for decades now.
It all started in 1974 with Willis Tower's deeply unsettling attraction, Skydeck Chicago, a glass box pushed out nearly 1,400 above the ground. Others have since followed suit.
That includes the Grand Canyon's Skywalk (720 feet above the ground), China's glass skywalk on Tianmen Mountain (4,700 feet above the ground), and the recently renovated Haohan Bridge (590 feet above the ground), which cracked just one week after opening.
But don't let that stop you from traveling to LA and getting a good old fashioned adrenaline rush.
