America was once home to dozens of amusement parks, buzzing midways, roaring rides, joyous screams, many of them now long abandoned. In this video we explore 20 defunct amusement parks across the ...

A roller coaster at the abandoned Fun Spot Amusement Park, Indiana - Nicholas J Klein/Shutterstock There's no question that amusement parks are popular in the United States. According to a 2022 study ...

The amusement park as we know it today, with concessions and mechanical rides, dates back to the mid-1800s. In Alabama, the earliest park was likely Birmingham’s East Lake Park, which opened in 1886.