Yangon Amusement Park
Built by the former military junta to distract an isolated population, the Yangon Amusement Park is shrouded in mystery. It closed after 15 or so years, and has quickly become… Read more »
Stories behind defunct and abandoned theme parks and amusements
Built by the former military junta to distract an isolated population, the Yangon Amusement Park is shrouded in mystery. It closed after 15 or so years, and has quickly become… Read more »
Once a sidebar oddity in an earthworm museum, Rosie the Shark burst onto the viral urbex scene in early 2019. This is the story of a shark who’s had an incredibly interesting afterlife.
Last week, we covered the first decades at Joyland under the operation of the Ottaway family. This week, we’ll cover the park’s operation under new management, with rises, falls, closures, abandonment, and lots of fires. Abandoned, Joyland became a magnet for urban explorers and vandals, and an example of the changing face of the amusement industry.
Joyland was a family-run amusement park in Wichita, KS, with a long history. This post is the first of two parts diving deep into the history of the park. In this post, I look at the history of the Ottaway family, the steam engine that started it all, and the first few decades of Joyland’s operation.
Welcome to The Abandoned Carousel, the show where I tell the story of the most interesting abandoned amusements and theme parks in the world. This week, we’re returning to the… Read more »
The Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park is an abandoned eyesore in 2019. But in its heyday, the park was a popular tourist destination. Prefer audio? Listen to this article. In the… Read more »
The Skyway was a popular gondola-style ride at Disneyland that operated for 38 years. After its closure in 1994, the Alpine chalet in Fantasyland remained abandoned for the next twenty years. The chalet was removed during the construction of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge.
Time Town was a small regional space-themed amusement park near Lake George, NY, and was open between 1970 and 1981.
Twenty-foot-tall sculptures of forty three presidents, decaying in a field in Virginia: this is Presidents Park. Once part of a stately and serene educational park in Williamsburg, these busts now decay in the elements.