▲Sitting in a creepy location outside the city and surrounded by swamps, this place used to be home to fun rides and cheerful visitors.

▲It was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

▲After the hurricane, it was left to abandonment. Over the years, it has been looted by the intruders who were brave enough to enter.

▲The ruins of the park have been used in scenes for movies such as 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' (2014) and 'Jurassic World' (2015).

▲This park opened its doors in 1969. Its decline started after the unification of Germany.

▲The park was hugely popular during the Cold War. It is located in east Berlin.

▲Despite being closed for years, the giant wheel still turns sometimes due to the strong winds in the area.

▲It is still possible to visit the park, but only on a guided tour.

▲According to the Daily Star, this park never even opened. One week before its opening date in 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened.

▲The town of Pripyat is very close to Chernobyl. Nowadays, it isn't more than a ghost town.

▲All that's left there are some rusted attractions, which make it look even creepier.

▲Adventure tourism does bring some curious visitors to the old Pripyat amusement park.

▲This park started being built in 2004, but it was never finished, and ended up just being abandoned.

▲The slides are covered in leaves and rust, and the pools are full of algae.

▲There were even three crocodiles living in one of the pools, and they were fed by the locals.

▲The location of this park is unknown—it simply doesn't appear on maps. According to MTV Asia, it looks likes something straight out of a horror movie.

▲The exact reason for its closure is unknown, but rumors of fatal accidents may have been the catalyst.

▲Some consider it the most terrifying theme park in the world. The place is full of rusted old attractions.

▲Atlas Obscura reports that this park opened in 1961 as a kind of Asian version of Disneyland.

▲Nara Dreamland closed its doors around 45 years later due to a drop in the number of visitors.

▲Since closing, the park received mainly adrenaline-loving visitors who liked to take photos of the park in its eerie abandoned state.

▲This park recreates the atmosphere and architecture of the Wild West.

▲According to NBC, a fire of unknown origin destroyed some of the buildings in 2010.

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Now it looks like a real ghost's paradise.

▲But demolition of the park was completed in December 2017.

▲Amusement parks: you probably think of them as places full of fun and joy. But the reality is a lot of these places became abandoned, eerie places, capable of chilling you to the bone.

Take a look at the gallery of these abandoned, possibly haunted places... if you dare.

The most terrifying abandoned amusement parks in the world

They were once places of fun, but now they are home to silence and mystery

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Amusement parks: you probably think of them as places full of fun and joy. But the reality is a lot of these places became abandoned, eerie places, capable of chilling you to the bone.

Take a look at the gallery of these abandoned, possibly haunted places... if you dare.