Nara Dreamland | Beautiful Abandoned Amusement Park in Japan

Nara Dreamland was built in 1961. This amusement theme park is located in city Nara, Japan. This Nara Dreamland is a replication of the Disneyland in California. The entrance to the park was designed to look almost identical to Disneyland, including the Train depot, large Matterhorn mountain, the monorail, a Main Street, U.S.A. and the familiar Sleeping Beauty Castle at the hub.

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The park contained several rides prior to closing, including:

•     Aska, a wooden roller coaster based on The Cyclone at Coney Island
•     Screw Coaster, an Arrow Dynamics designed double corkscrew steel roller coaster
•     Bobsleigh, a steel roller coaster modeled after the Matterhorn Bobsleds
•     Fantasy Coaster
•     Kid's Coaster
•     Figure-8 monorail

Other rides included a carousel, a small powered coaster, a Jungle Cruise styled ride, and a log flume.

The park was closed in 2006 because of low visitor numbers. But rather than sell off the rides, or look at an alternative use for the land, it was just abandoned. Nothing has been done to it at all. The ticket booths still stand next to the ride entrances, the carriages still sit on the tracks of the roller coasters, even the chairs and the coffee machines are still in the restaurants. It was all but a ghost town and the fun part exists due to Nara Dreamland being left abandoned but not demolished.

Bagan | A Historic Royal City in Myanmar

Once the capital city of the Kingdom of Pagan now one of the great place of historic significance and archaeological sites in Southeast Asia. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.
  

Bagan is an area in the Central region of Myanmar. Bagan is the current Mandalay Division , 155 km southwest of the city of Mandalay on the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy , midway between its source and it flows into the Indian Ocean.
The culture of Bagan was dominated by religion. The religion of Bagan was fluid, syncretic and by later standards, unorthodox. Now the Bagan Archaeological Zone is a main draw for the country's nascent tourism industry.