In 1998, the US "Rainforest" Cafe opened its first restaurant in Hong Kong, featuring immersive rainforest decor, mechanical animals, and thunderstorm effects. The restaurant closed in 2003. A man ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Upon entering the Rainforest Cafe, I was greeted by a talking tree that rattled off a slew of ...

Where else could you tuck into a bowl of python pasta, soundtracked against the prerecorded grunts and grumbles of gorillas and screech of live parrots? For ’90s kids hosting at least one, if not many ...

There’s a house in the western suburbs of Minneapolis that was once home to one of the wildest business ventures of all time. You wouldn’t guess it at first look — it’s a modest house painted an ...