10 most unusual parks in the world

Nature is the best artist, but sometimes a person intervenes in her design, and thanks to such a union, amazing places appear. We offer you a selection of the most unusual parks in the world.

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1. 200 Buddha Park, Laos

The 200 Buddha Park was created relatively recently by Bunlya Sulitat, one of the religious leaders of Laos. The work took a long time, and Sulitat himself could not finish it, because he went crazy. Nevertheless, the park is amazing: in a relatively small area, more than 200 sculptures of Buddhas, snakes, gods and heroes of Hindu and Buddhist mythology have been collected. Thanks to a carefully thought-out layout, the visitor can come close to each stone statue, study all the features of the carving, or, if he wants, peer into the stone faces from afar. The amazing thing is that each hero carved in stone has its own facial expression. Absolutely all the statues are worked out to the smallest detail: scales on snake bodies, folds on the clothes of heroes, paraphernalia, faces ... The height of some statues reaches 20 m, and some do not exceed the height of a five-year-old child.

The park is only five kilometers from Nong Khai town, and if you wish, you can easily get there by bike or even on foot. In addition to statues, it has picturesque ponds, well-groomed flower beds, as well as a glass sphere open to visitors, where the embalmed body of Bunlya Sulitat, the creator of the park, rests.

2. Green lake, Austria

This park, located in the Austrian town of Tragoess, is surprising primarily because in winter it is an ordinary park with flowerbeds, alleys, and groves laid out here. People come here to sit on comfortable benches, have a picnic and admire the stunning views of the mountains and the lake, the water of which has an unusual green tint. But in summer the lake overflows, and the water level in it rises from two meters to ten. Then the park is flooded and completely hidden under water.

And then divers come here from all over the world. Perhaps this is the only place in the world where you can see the familiar world under water. All plants, park paths and benches remain in their place, and you and scuba dive past them. Among the terrestrial vegetation, small fish swim in crystal clear water. And so it goes until winter comes again.

3. Park of sinners, Thailand

The park is not recommended for people with unstable mentality. The fact is that the Park of Sinners on the territory of a Buddhist temple 40 km from Bangkok is filled with sculptures of people pierced by spears, hanged, eaten by mythical animals and died in other, no less terrible ways - a kind of clear demonstration of how “hell on earth” could look like ". In addition, muffled psychedelic music and an eerie voice narrate various horrors, tortures and the like - fortunately in Thai - are heard from the speakers installed throughout the park.

By the way, Thais often come here with their children, apparently for educational purposes. But we would not recommend bringing a child to such a place. And adults should visit such a park only if they have either an iron psyche or a specific sense of humor.

4. Space Reflection Park, Scotland

According to the idea of the creators of the park, the spouses Charles Jenks and Maggie Cheswick, this place should give visitors an idea of the Universe and the place of man in it, as well as the fact that all modern science is nothing more than a step in the process of knowing something completely unusual. There are no usual flower beds or convenient paths in the park. But there are completely futuristic objects like an unusual form of artificial hills, bridges, stairs. Everything is so harmonious that aluminum sculptures of the most bizarre shape fit perfectly into the surrounding landscape.

The visitor can even fall into a "black hole" or find himself in a Klein bottle, ponder over complex mathematical formulas or wander inside fractals. From a bird's eye view, all artificial objects of the park are a complete picture. This is one of those amazing man-made places on planet Earth that is definitely worth a visit.

5. Museum of Creation, USA

This park was primarily created to show people that the creation of the Earth by God (as described in the Bible) in no way contradicts the theory of evolution. The visitor's attention is offered to the giant moving figures of dinosaurs, adjacent to the "reconstruction" of the huge Noah's Ark. Behind the glass cases nearby lie the bones of prehistoric animals and biblical artifacts. Park staff argue that the existence of dinosaurs does not contradict the Bible - God could have created them in the same way as all other animals, but for some reason they did not survive the Great Flood.

Regardless of your religious beliefs, the park is definitely worth visiting. The fact is that most dinosaur bones and reconstructed skeletons are genuine archaeological finds. And the idea of combining biblical history with science is interesting enough in itself.

6. Keukenhof Flower Park, Netherlands

Keukenhof is famous all over the world primarily due to the huge fields of tulips growing on its territory. More than 100 varieties of these flowers grow on 32 hectares. Of course, in addition to tulips, other flowers grow in the park: lilacs, orchids, roses, lilies. In the spring, more than 800 thousand tourists come to the park - the fact is that due to the "finicky" tulips, the park is open only from March to May.

Every year at the end of April, the park hosts the Parade of Flowers: huge platforms made entirely of plants move along the streets of the city of Lissa.

7. Francisco Alvarado Park, Costa Rica

This park is a real marvel of landscape design. Walking along its paths, you will see elephants, monkeys and other animals made of living cypress. But the main thing in the park is a mystical labyrinth of living plants: countless green arches hang over visitors, intricately intertwining paths stretch under their feet, and along the way there will be many surprises - which is worth only a giant figure of a sleeping woman, whose body and face are carved from moss-covered stones .

8. Jurong Bird Park, Singapore

Jaurong has a collection of birds from all over the world. Most of the feathered inhabitants of the park are, of course, birds from Southeast Asia, but there are also many species from Europe, America and Africa. The main feature of the park is that visitors have the illusion that the birds live in the wild - there are no aviaries or cages in the park. For each group of birds, conditions have been created that imitate its natural habitat: for example, an air conditioning system has been made for penguins, and a large artificial reservoir for flamingos.

Most of all, visitors like to look at the aviary with parrots - 110 varieties of these bright intelligent birds live here. No less interesting is the pavilion with an artificial waterfall, where 1500 species of birds from different parts of the world live. You will be able to watch their life in real time, how the birds feed, sleep, and raise offspring. But you can’t feed them - park employees warn that this can adversely affect the health of birds.

9. Dwarf Kingdom, China

To be honest, it's not exactly a park. Rather, the Dwarf Kingdom can be called a village where only dwarfs live. The park has its own school, hospital, shops. But from time to time the doors of the village are opened for visitors, and the dwarfs dress up in fabulous costumes and conduct tours of their homes for those who wish. The houses, by the way, are very interesting, made in the form of mycelium or trees. The entire staff of the park are exclusively its residents.

From the point of view of public morality, the park raises some doubts among both Europeans and Chinese. But, one way or another, the place is popular, and the Chinese authorities are in no hurry to lose a good source of income.

10. Chess Park, Japan

In the Japanese city of Osaka, on the banks of one of the canals, there is a park dedicated to board games. Paths, tables, children's slides and all other objects are made in a chess theme. Of course, in the park you can find chess boards directly, and tables for playing backgammon, and boards for playing go or checkers. The park is not very popular with tourists, but it is very popular with locals who often come here with their children.

The park is also amazing because the creators did not have much money, so all the objects are made of cheap and environmentally friendly materials like pressed wood and cardboard. If you find yourself in Japan, stop by, you won’t regret it, because the Chess Park is an excellent example of how you can make a place for recreation right in the city in an interesting and useful way.