Tokyo, Japan
Kawaii Monster Cafe
A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.
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Tokyo, Japan
A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.
Imsil-gun, South Korea
A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.
Seoul, South Korea
Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.
Changzhou Shi, China
This incredible Chinese theme park may be the largest bootleg in history.
Tokyo, Japan
If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.
San Diego, California
One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.
Los Angeles, California
A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.
Bronx, New York
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
San Francisco, California
A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.
Cave City, Kentucky
An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.
Bruceville, Indiana
A humble homemade ride attracts visitors from around the globe to this small Midwestern town.
St. Louis, Missouri
A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Nervesa della Battaglia, Italy
Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Santa Ynez, California
The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.
Amherstburg, Ontario
An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.
Onsted, Michigan
The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.
Castellón, Spain
A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.
Tampa, Florida
These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.
Nicosia, Cyprus
A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.