Built around a sprawling lake in the Gombak hills, Mimaland’s layout was a maze of hillside slides, dinosaur trails, and water attractions that felt part jungle, part adventure camp. A Mimaland map once guided visitors through winding paths from the wave pool to the boating lake and up toward the miniature land exhibits, a full…
Built around sweeping dunes and wooden boardwalks, La Mer de Sable feels more like a frontier playground than a traditional park. Its looped layout circles a vast sand arena where trains, boats, and trails weave through desert, jungle, and Western lands. A La Mer de Sable map keeps visitors oriented between rides, animal zones, and…
Location: Buena Park, California Years Active: 1983 – Active Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament is a family dinner theater featuring staged medieval-style games, sword-fighting, and jousting. Medieval Times Entertainment, the holding company, is headquartered in Irving, Texas. There are ten locations: the nine in the United States are built as replica 11th-century castles; the tenth, in…
Location: Grand Island, New York Years Active: 1961 – Active Fantasy Island was founded by real estate developer Lawrence Grant, and was opened on July 1, 1961. It was designed by co-financier and local jeweler Gerald Birzon and constructed by Milton Milstein and Associates. The ownership group was formed under the name Fantasy Land, Inc. before changing soon…
Location: Gurnee, Illinois Years Active: 1976 – Active Six Flags Great America is an amusement park located in Gurnee, Illinois, within the northern Chicago metropolitan area. Originally opened in 1976 by the Marriott Corporation as Marriott’s Great America, Six Flags has owned and operated the park since 1984. It features four themed areas and fifteen roller…
Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario Years Active: 1961 – Active Marineland (official name Marineland of Canada Inc.), is a themed zoo and amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The park has performing marine animal shows, sea mammal and land animal exhibits, and amusement rides. It keeps dolphins, sea lions, an orca, and beluga whales. The park also keeps bears, deer, and other land animals. It was…
Location: Redwood Shores, California Years Active: 1968 – 1986 The animal theme park now known as Six Flags Discovery Kingdom previously operated as Marine World/Africa USA in Redwood Shores, California. The park was named Marine World when it first opened in 1968 before merging with the failing land-animal park called Africa USA in 1972. In 1986,…
Location: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Years Active: 1972 – 1994 Imagine plunging your hands into a child’s toy box in the late 70s, reaching in deep past the Star Wars figures and the Godzillas and a variety of Bat-people, and pulling out the little bits of molded plastic that didn’t get played with as much as the…
Built around a looping river lagoon with a modest midway spine, Magic Valley Park was a regional park that packed a lot into a tight Idaho footprint. The Magic Valley Park map guided guests through twisting rides, shaded picnic zones, and the small tram that circled its outer edge. It made finding the right snack…
Magic Kingdom was built around that hub-and-spoke layout everyone sketches from memory, the castle in the middle, lands radiating like spokes on a wheel, but the scale still tricks first-timers. That’s why a Magic Kingdom map isn’t just helpful, it’s survival gear. Adventureland narrows fast where the parade route meets the bridge, while Liberty Square’s…
