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One of a few cheese wheel buildings.
Imsil-gun, South Korea

Imsil Cheese Theme Park

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.
Captain Hook.
amusement parks

Why Myrtle Beach Takes Mini-Golf So Seriously

From friendly mermaids to a fiery volcano, the courses in this South Carolina city have it all.
Ali Slagle April 13, 2018
Ferris wheel at Tokyu Plaza Kamata.
Tokyo, Japan

Tokyu Plaza Rooftop Ferris Wheel

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.
Mark Cline.
roadside attractions

Inside the World of Virginia’s Roadside Attraction King

For more than 30 years, Mark Cline has been keeping the state weird.
Eric J. Wallace April 1, 2018
The one, the only, coney.
amusement parks

Why Michigan's Favorite Hot Dog Has a New York Name

How did Coney Island get to Detroit?
Anne Ewbank March 8, 2018
Aerial shot of Naskart Racing
Montville, Connecticut

Supercharged

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.
Insano
Aquiraz, Brazil

Insano Body Slide

From 135 feet high riders plunge down the world's tallest freestanding body slide at 65 mph.
Washuzan Highland.
Kurashiki-shi, Japan

Washuzan Highland

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.
Wilmington, New York

Santa's Workshop

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.
Himeji, Japan

Taiyo Park

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.
Rose City Rollers
Portland, Oregon

Rose City Rollers

Inside a humble hangar is some of the best roller derby the world has to offer.
Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park.
Onsted, Michigan

Prehistoric Forest Amusement Park

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.
Tower in Batumi, Georgia
Batumi, Georgia

Batumi Tower Ferris Wheel

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.
The vintage Speedway.
Pembrokeshire, Wales

Folly Farm

Go back 50 years with a turn on one of the park's carefully restored vintage fairground rides.
Futuroscope after dark
Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France

Futuroscope

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.
Just a taste of some of the freaky creations that could be found at The World of Sid and Marty Krofft.
amusement parks

Downtown Atlanta’s Lost Psychedelic Theme Park

Before there was the CNN Center, there was The World of Sid and Marty Krofft.
Eric Grundhauser July 18, 2017
Some of the LED gardens at Nabano No Sato.
Kuwana-shi, Japan

Nabana No Sato

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.
The gardens of Jardin d'Acclimatation
Paris, France

Jardin d'Acclimatation

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.