CNN puts Thuy Tien Lake in Hue among 10 breathtakingly beautiful parks that will 'close forever'

According to CNN , while there are hundreds of parks in operation around the world, there are also hundreds more that have been erased from entertainment history. Most have been abandoned by their owners and operators for a variety of reasons, including declining attendance, natural disasters, financial hardship, or simply because they are no longer relevant to modern park-goers.

Thuy Tien Lake in Hue , voted by CNN as one of the top 10 most beautiful amusement parks, has closed forever...

Thuy Tien Lake in Hue was voted by CNN as one of the top 10 abandoned amusement parks because it is a strange and mysterious attraction with a magical beauty. A concrete dragon that used to be an aquarium still stands guard over the lake. Financial difficulties caused the park to only open intermittently from 2004 to 2011. Today, Thuy Tien Lake Park is an unofficial tourist attraction, the dragon standing in the middle of the lake is rotting and rusting, and the water slides are also badly damaged. All the ruins look more like a ruin from thousands of years ago than a 21st century attraction.

Jim Futrell of the National Amusement Park Historical Society says amusement parks are vibrant, colorful, noisy and fun places. But an abandoned amusement park is the exact opposite. It is dilapidated, empty and eerily quiet.

Scene of devastation at Thuy Tien Lake Park (Hue)

In addition to Vietnam's Thuy Tien Lake Park, other enchanting parks that are being closed forever selected by CNN this time include Berliner Spreepark (Germany), which operated from 1969 to 2001; Mimaland (Malaysia) located on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, which operated from 1975 to 1994. This is also the first amusement park in Southeast Asia, with an artificial lake, a giant swimming pool with giant water slides and a prehistoric animal kingdom.

The list also includes Camelot amusement park (UK); Six Flags New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) which was closed since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, operating for only 5 years from 2000 - 2005; Nara Dreamland (Japan), operating from 1961 - 2006; Jardin de Tivoli (France), one of the world 's first amusement parks, operating since the late 18th century and closed in 1842; Pripyat amusement park (Ukraine).

Yongma Land Park (South Korea), which operated from 1980 to 2011, is abandoned, but visitors have to pay an entrance fee (10,000 won) instead of sneaking inside; Cypress Garden (Florida), which opened in 1932, closed in 2009.

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