The World's Creepiest Parks For Kids
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Today, the park features a water slide area and zoo and attracts upwards of 50,000 visitors per year.
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The two other sections of the park are Tofteville, an old mining town, with working rides, and finally The Old World takes you back to Medieval Europe, complete with haunted house.
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One of the areas of the 'theme park' is the Ten Courts of Hell, which depicts scenes from Chinese legends and promotes good living, by showing the crimes and punishments of those that don't live good.
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BonBon Land is the brainchild of Danish confectioner, Michael Spangsberg, who opened the park in 1992. Home of the "Farting Dog," BonBon Land features a puzzling variety of cartoon animal statues.
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Locals don't seem to mind the park's scatological bent, bringing large hordes of kids to view and play on all the gross attractions!
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Construction began in 1986. ABC News visited Shijingshan in 2007, they reported much of the place looked eerily similar to parts of the Disney theme parks.
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The Spinning Batman ride. Shijingshan's deputy general manager Yin Zhiqiang told the AP in 2007, "We do not have any agreements with Disney. The characters in our park just look a little bit similar to theirs."
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The Park first opened in 1961 as a small tourist attraction named "Rebel Railroad." in 1986, Parton became co-owner, and the park was renamed to "Dollywood."
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Sister waterpark Dollywood's Splash Country, and DreamMore Resort, make up the 290-acre Dollywood amusement multiplex.
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Dickens World was a $124 million idea that Sam Anderson wrote in the New York Times magazine "promised to be an 'authentic' re-creation of the London of Charles Dickens's novels, complete with soot, pickpockets, cobblestones, gas lamps, animatronic Dickens characters and strategically placed chemical 'smell pots' that would, when heated, emit odors of offal and rotting cabbage."
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Anderson, who attended the delayed opening of the park in 2007, returned in 2012 to find a park wracked by the recession, surviving off of rent from the chain restaurants surrounding the village.
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The Park is located on the grounds of the former dug lord, Pablo Exocobar's ranch. The airplane decorating the entrance, transported his first load of cocaine to the U.S.
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Today, the park features a water slide area and zoo and attracts upwards of 50,000 visitors per year.
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