Check out this eerie, human-powered, theme-park playground

Check out this eerie, human-powered, theme-park playground

The restaurant Ai Pioppi can be found just an hour north of Venice, Italy, and to find it, just follow the screams — which happen to be coming from the people who are powering the very rides that are prompting their squeals of delight.

Behind the restaurant lies a giant, human-powered, theme-park playground, which was built over the past 40 years by the restaurant’s owner, Bruno.

With ride names like Wheel of Death, you would think that people would stay away, but think again. Last weekend, Tom Scott and his friend Paul took on the kinetic-art theme park and filmed their experience.

“I’ll be honest: I sort of thought it was a myth.” Tom wrote in the YouTube description, “The idea of unattended, huge kinetic ride-on sculptures was surely false?”

The pair tackled almost all the rides and even managed to do a somersault on the Bicycle of Death.

But the two didn’t come away unscathed; Tom injured his face on a piece of metal after a fall and had to be taken to the hospital, where he received seven stitches.

Tom included a sort of public service announcement for the park at the end of the video, and he also added this warning in the video’s YouTube description: “And if you don’t take the right amount of caution, it can hurt you — although my eventual injury didn't come through any rides, but just by tripping over by running!”