Abandoned Theme Parks- Extra Credit

1. The amusement park that I would like to visit with a camera would be the Land of Oz, Beech Mountain, in North Carolina. I would like to visit this one because it is actually still in working order. I am not a good person to take to "scary" places because I get scared really easily, and since it opens for visits for two days in October, that means that the place isn't completely deserted. I think that the amusement park would be in enough of a disarray to have cool juxtaposing pictures, but not enough to terrify me.  

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3. The abandoned Disney amusement park in Japan (Nara Dreamland), abandoned hospitals, abandoned malls, the remains of abandoned mining towns (if there even are any left), and isolated abandoned houses in a forest. I can't think of any place specifically besides the Disney amusement park in Japan, but these places would be cool to visit. 

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5. I think that it would be really fun to go to another country and be able to document their version of an American Classic, or Disney. I think that I could get a lot of juxtaposing pictures, which is something that really interests me as an artist. I also think that the amount of greenery would be able to rival anywhere in America. I think that there would be more opportunity to document the clash of the abandoned man-made place and nature here.

6. I would need to get a passport, get overseas plane tickets, and arrange hotel reservations. The majority of the work and planning would be put into getting there. I would need to get a camera, with a variety of lens and maybe a tripod.  It is illegal to enter the grounds. There was the beginning of a demolition project in 2016, but from what I can tell, they never completed. There are actually multiple blogs giving instructions on how to get into the abandoned amusement park. I think that the majority of it has been destroyed by now.