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cikatilia · Post time 25-2-2013 05:42 PM

The (broken) Promised Land: Eerie Bible-themed amusement park left to fall into ruin over three decades
A theme park dedicated to the Bible may seem like a scary place for atheists and non-believers.
When it comes to the now-defunct Holy Land USA amusement park, however, even the most devout visitors can agree that it is an eerie place - at least from these photos discovered from the Flickr account of Laura S. Marshall.
Construction on the Waterbury, Connecticut theme park began in 1955 when a religious local lawyer named John Greco who created the 19-acre park as a place for pilgrimages and an entertaining way for interested visitors to learn about the Bible.

The abandoned Holy Land amusement park leaves a plethora of strange and peculiar artifacts

Construction on the park began in 1955 and it became very popular in the 1960s and 1970s but it shuttered in 1984, initially with plans for it to be re-done

Visible to all: The 56-foot cross in Holy Land USA theme park could be seen by drivers on a nearby highway in Waterbury, Connecticut and not just the thousands of visitors who went to the park in it's heyday

Setting the scene: The 19-acre theme park was filled with recreated scenes, religious statues and dioramas

Neglected for nearly three decades, Holy Land more resembles a haunted mansion

Ancient influences: The connection between Judaism and Christianity was explained in one of the displays

The park was officially closed in 1984, despite receiving nearly 100,000 visitors annually

This text from the gospel of Matthew still stands intact in the abandoned park

Pivotal spot: This shows a model of the inn in Bethlehem that was involved in the story of Jesus' birth

Eerie even then: The tombs display may have spooked some of the 40,000 annual visitors even when it was up to the highest condition but now they are even scarier