Inside 7 Haunted Abandoned Theme Parks Where Time Stands Still and Secrets Linger

Inside 7 Haunted Abandoned Theme Parks Where Time Stands Still and Secrets Linger

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French photographer Romain Veillon has visited the park, and told CNN that it felt “unreal to see all these robots left everywhere […] you had the impression of being on the set of a sci-fi movie!” Time hasn’t been kind to the animatronics, with some of them missing parts of their faces and sporting broken limbs.

Yongma Land, South Korea

An abandoned carousel at Yongma Land in South Korea

An abandoned carousel at Yongma Land in South Korea | Christian Bolz, Wikimedia Commons // CC 4.0

Yongma Land is located on the outskirts of Seoul. The small theme park opened in the early 1980s, but began suffering from declining visitor numbers just around a decade later when the far bigger Lotte World opened nearby. Yongma managed to struggle on for a few more decades, but it finally shut down in 2011. Although the rides are no longer operational, there is a small entry charge, with the money being used to maintain the park’s current state of disrepair. Visitors can even pay a little extra for the lights of the carousel to be turned on.

Yongma Land has become a destination for photo shoots and has served as a set for K-pop idols, most notably IU and Crayon Pop. Some couples even get their pre-wedding or wedding photos taken at the park.

Yangon Amusement Park, Myanmar

Hidden amidst the bustling streets of Myanmar’s Yangon is an abandoned amusement park that is steadily being reclaimed by nature. Located next to Yangon Zoo, the park was built in 1997, but it shut down for unknown reasons in 2013. It didn’t take long for the surrounding jungle to start encroaching on the rides—including bumper cars, a swinging pirate ship, and a 40-foot-high roller coaster. When the park first opened it was billed as one of the entertainment highlights of Yangon, but it now looks eerily post-apocalyptic.

Gulliver’s Kingdom, Japan

Gulliver's Kingdom in Japan when it was still open

Gulliver’s Kingdom in Japan when it was still open | YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/GettyImages

In 1997, Gulliver’s Kingdom amusement park opened in the village of Kamikuishiki. While the park had a stunning view of Mount Fuji, Kamikuishiki had made headlines just two years earlier for having been the base of Aum Shinrikyo—the cult that carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack.

Although an odd choice of location for a theme park, Gulliver’s Kingdom drew people in with its centerpiece: a 147.5-foot-long statue of Lemuel Gulliver from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726). The figure’s massive size turned customers into Lilliputians, but the park shut after only four years when its financial backer, Niigata Chuo Bank, collapsed. It wasn’t long before the whimsical Gulliver statue fell into disrepair and became a canvas for graffiti artists.

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