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44 Things To Add To Your Thrill-Seeking Bucket List

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Somewhere between a canyon in New Zealand and a theme park outside Tokyo, there’s a bucket list waiting to be checked off.

Insider’s “The Ultimate List” series has built a reputation for cataloging the most extreme, most photogenic, and most stomach-churning ways humans voluntarily scare themselves, and its roundup of 44 bucket-list thrills is no exception. The video strings together everything from a human-launching catapult in Queenstown to a roller coaster that drops riders past vertical in Yamanashi, Japan, treating the whole world as one giant adrenaline itinerary. It’s less a countdown than a travel guide for people who consider “safe” a dirty word.

• The Nevis Catapult in Queenstown, New Zealand, is billed as the world’s first commercial human catapult, flinging riders across a canyon ravine at roughly 60 mph in just 1.5 seconds.
• The Takabisha roller coaster at Fuji-Q Highland in Yamanashi, Japan, is known for a record-setting 121-degree beyond-vertical first drop.
• The list runs a full spectrum of adrenaline activities, from wing walking on a vintage biplane to high-altitude skydiving and classic bungee jumps off cliffs and bridges.

New Zealand’s Human Catapult

Queenstown has long marketed itself as the birthplace of commercial bungee jumping, but the Nevis Catapult takes that reputation somewhere weirder. Instead of falling, riders get launched — strapped into a harness and fired across a canyon ravine at close to 60 mph, the whole ride over in about 1.5 seconds. Insider’s list treats it as the flagship attraction of the entire roundup, and it’s easy to see why: there’s no slow build, no freefall countdown, just an instant, violent snap into motion that most amusement parks can’t replicate with a coaster.

Japan’s Beyond-Vertical Drop

Takabisha, at Fuji-Q Highland, earns its spot on the list for a first drop that goes past straight down. At 121 degrees beyond vertical, the coaster briefly sends riders backward relative to gravity before the track curves them into the rest of the ride. It’s the kind of engineering flex that theme parks chase for bragging rights, and Fuji-Q Highland has leaned into it as a signature draw for visitors making the trip out from Tokyo.

A canyon catapult at 60 mph in 1.5 seconds, and a coaster drop that goes 121 degrees past straight down — the two anchor attractions on the list aren’t subtle about their pitch.

Sky, Water, and Everything Between

Beyond the two marquee stops, the video widens out into the full menu of ways to get your heart rate up. Wing walking puts riders strapped directly onto the wings of a vintage biplane mid-flight, no cabin, no windshield, just open air and altitude. High-altitude skydiving and classic bungee jumps off iconic cliff and bridge platforms round out the airborne half of the list, while the rest leans on rapids, canyons, and dirt tracks back on solid ground. If you’ve ever looked at a parkour run through a city and thought that looked tame, this compilation is built to push past it.

The Effectiveness of the Format

What makes Insider’s “The Ultimate List” format effective isn’t depth on any single stunt — it’s the sheer breadth. Cataloging 44 separate thrills across multiple continents lets the video function as a checklist rather than a single travel segment, the same way a rundown of the planet’s most dangerous natural phenomena works better as a sprawling list than a deep dive on one storm. Viewers aren’t meant to watch it once and move on — they’re meant to bookmark it and start crossing things off.

Queenstown and Yamanashi anchor the list for a reason: one gets you across a canyon in under two seconds, the other gets you 121 degrees past vertical before you’ve even cleared the station. Everything else on the 44-item rundown is just there to fill in the gaps between those two extremes.