Anything that's interesting and a little off the beaten path. It's fun learning weird things about the world!
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The unhappiest places on earth: Nightmarish playground structures from around the world
dangerousminds.net
The first one when you click through... how on earth does that get made.




As a kid, I loved urban exploring. (I still do.) One of my favorite places was a "Russian" kindergarten playground which was still in use back then, but clearly outdated and on its way out like everything else from Soviet times. I'd climb over the fence when the place was empty, and I'd play there alone, in my own creepy private world.
This article reminded me of all the old wooden sculptures there. The place was filled with them - I think they were mostly animals and people from Russian fairy tales. They weren't anything shocking, but they seemed really foreign and weird to me. (Kinda magical too, but then again, what isn't magical to a kid.)
I think some of the sculptures in the article aren't so odd either, they have just been painted over in an unflattering or intentionally weird way. And some others are just modern art.
Those kindergarten grounds of mine also had some clunky, broken, dangerous, and most fun equipment, I mean things that would spin me around at light speed while I'd only have a rusty steel pole to hold on to... Damn I'm getting nostalgic now.
That sounds awesome : )
I think the only one that I find truly disturbing is the first one. Like, I dunno. Just wtf. But I love the ones that look like fairy tale/folk art and that clown garbage can is pretty cool. I don't think I would have been disturbed by any of it as a kid. Everything is magical then and you can create your own back stories and create a whole new world.
Did you ever get scared in your explorations? I also hypothetically explored more than I really explored. My dad took me exploring along some old abandoned train tracks in the town we grew up in and I loved it and there were so many things that sparked my imagination, and I always wanted to go back and explore even more, but the way to get there was by going through a graveyard and past the creepy tool shed that I always imagined had a scary criminal hiding out in it, and then I had too many associations of homeless people and train tracks to feel like I could safely go as an 8-year-old all by myself.
Walter!