You could go to Disneyland and have fun…or you could go to one of these perplexing places.
BON BON LAND
Bon Bon is a Danish company that makes candy with a toilet-humor theme (its most popular product is something called “Dog Fart”). Bon Bon Land, the fourth-largest amusement park in Denmark, takes all of Bon Bon’s cartoon-animal mascots and turns them into rides and attractions. The signature ride is the Dog Fart roller coaster, which winds around giant mounds of dog doo, pooping dogs, and giant speakers that play fart noises. Other attractions include a roller coaster through a sewer filled with (fake) feces and vomiting rats, and statues of buxom cows and dogs lifting their legs.
Almost all of Charles Dickens’s literature takes place in a grimy, drab 19th-century England plagued by disease, starvation, and dirty orphans. And at Dickens World in Chatham, England, you can relive that horrible era. In addition to rides based on bleak Dickens books such as Oliver Twist, there’s a Great Expectations boat ride, the Haunted House of Ebenezer Scrooge, a pawnshop, and a debtor’s prison. Throughout the park, hired actors pose as hungry, filthy street urchins.
The claim to fame of this park, located on Jeju Island in South Korea, is its 140 giant, sexually explicit sculptures. It’s designed to be educational; neither South Korea’s schools nor its popular culture offer much in the way of sex education, and arranged marriages are still commonplace. So this park was opened by the art department of Hongik University as a honeymoon destination. Theoretically, newlyweds are supposed to study and learn from the imposing white sculptures of giant reproductive organs and people engaged in various sexual positions. No kiddie rides here; you must be 18 or older to enter.
World’s stinkiest bird: the Hoatzin, from Colombia. They smell like cow manure.