The 10 most unusual parks in the world

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

The 200 Buddha Park was created relatively recently by one of the religious leaders of Laos, Bunla Sultan. 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 there are more than 200 sculptures of Buddhas, snakes, gods and heroes of Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Thanks to the 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 every hero carved in stone has his own facial expression. Absolutely all the statues are worked out to the smallest detail: scales on snake bodies, folds on the clothes of heroes, attributes, 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 located just five km from the city of Nong Khai, and if desired, it can be easily reached by bike or even on foot. In addition to the statues, it has picturesque ponds, well-groomed flower beds, as well as a glass sphere open to visitors, where the embalmed body of the creator of the park Bunly Sulitat rests.

This park, located in the Austrian town of Tragoess, is amazing 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 in which has an unusual green hue. 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 disappears 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 underwater. All the plants, park paths and benches remain in their place, and you scuba dive past them. Small fish swim in the crystal clear water among the terrestrial vegetation. And so it goes on until winter comes again.

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The park is not recommended for people with unstable mentality to visit. The fact is that the Sinners Park on the territory of a Buddhist temple 40 km from Bangkok is filled with sculptures of people pierced with spears, hanged, eaten by mythical animals and died in other, no less terrible ways — a kind of visual demonstration of what “hell on earth” could look like. In addition, muffled psychedelic music and a creepy voice can be heard from speakers installed throughout the park, telling about various horrors, torture and similar things — fortunately, in Thai.

By the way, Thais often come here with 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.

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According to the idea of the park’s creators, 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 that all modern science is nothing more than a step in the process of learning something completely extraordinary. There are no familiar flower beds or convenient paths in the park. But there are absolutely futuristic objects like the unusual shape of artificial hills, bridges, stairs. Everything is so harmonious that aluminum sculptures of the most bizarre shape perfectly fit into the surrounding landscape.

A visitor can even get into a “black hole” or end up in a Klein bottle, ponder complex mathematical formulas or wander inside fractals. From a bird’s-eye view, all the artificial objects of the park present a complete picture. This is one of those amazing man—made places on planet Earth that are definitely worth a visit.

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 is offered giant moving figures of dinosaurs, adjacent to the “reconstruction” of the huge Noah’s Ark. Behind the glass cases, bones of prehistoric animals and biblical artifacts lie nearby. Park staff claim that the existence of dinosaurs does not contradict the Bible — God could have created them just like all other animals, but for some reason they did not survive the Great Flood.

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

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, besides tulips, other flowers grow in the park: lilacs, orchids, roses, lilies. In spring, more than 800 thousand tourists come to the park — the fact is that due to the “fastidiousness” of tulips, the park is open only from March to May.

Every year at the end of April, a Flower Parade takes place in the park: huge platforms made entirely of plants move along the streets of the city of Lissa.

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

Birds from all over the world are gathered in Jaurong. 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 birds live in the wild — there are no aviaries or cages in the park. Conditions have been created for each group of birds that mimic its natural habitat: for example, an air conditioning system has been made for penguins, and a large artificial pond for flamingos.

Most of all, visitors like to explore the aviary with parrots — 110 varieties of these bright, intelligent birds live here. No less interesting is the pavilion with an artificial waterfall, where 1,500 species of birds from different parts of the world live. You will be able to observe their life in real time, how the birds feed, sleep, and raise their offspring. But you can’t feed them — park staff warn that this can negatively affect the health of birds.

To tell the truth, it’s not really a park. Rather, the Dwarf Kingdom can be called a village where dwarfs live exclusively. The park has its own school, hospital, and shops. But from time to time, the doors of the village open to 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 consists exclusively of its residents.

From the point of view of public morality, the park causes some doubt 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.

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In the Japanese city of Osaka, there is a park dedicated to board games on the banks of one of the canals. The 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, tables for playing backgammon, and boards for playing go or checkers. The park is not very popular with tourists, but it is very much loved by locals who often come here with children.

The park is also amazing because the creators did not have so many funds, so all the objects are made of cheap and environmentally friendly materials like pressed wood and cardboard. If you find yourself in Japan, go in, you will not regret it, because the Chess Park is an excellent example of how you can interestingly and usefully make a place to relax right in the city.

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