There are few abandoned sites in the United States as creepy as Six Flags New Orleans. The storied amusement park, which first operated as Jazzland, was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.The ...

Disney, Six Flags, and even the Flintstones have had amusement parks that succumbed to disasters, bad press, and shifting entertainment markets. But for the adventurous, abandoned theme parks ...

The cart from which the child fell down was also left in place. (via Abandoned Places, BitRebels and Korea-Fans). Takakanonuma Greenland, Hobara, Japan (1973-1975; 1986-1999) First it closed after ...

Certain parts of the U.S. have teetered into decline. Places designed to bring joy are now rotting quietly, wrapped in weeds. Seph Lawless, an artist and ...

These Abandoned Theme Parks Are Guaranteed To Make You Nostalgic. ... Plus: Secret IRS data-sharing with ICE, a 20-year-old hackable vulnerability in train brakes, and more.

The Rio Grande line, which opened in 1970, boasted a four per cent gradient, marking it as the steepest ascent on any ...

Active from 1980 to 2011, the is one of the few abandoned theme parks where visitors have to pay a small admission fee (10,000 won) rather than sneaking inside.

Something about the sight of abandoned and dilapidated theme parks was fascinating — and apparently I wasn't alone. ... These post-mortems of old parks remind me of a version of modern archaeology.

Joe Yogerst, CNN Although hundreds of theme parks are active around the globe, hundreds more have been relegated to the scrapheap of amusement history. They were abandoned by owners and operators ...