Amusement parks have changed dramatically in the past 150 years. They began as an incentive by trolley companies to increase weekend ridership, offering picnic groves and often theaters or boats.

Seph Lawless The amusement park's hours of operation were sporadic and unpredictable near the end. The park shut its doors in 2008, 52 years after its debut. The Fun Spot in Indiana. Seph Lawless ...

Disney, Six Flags, and even the Flintstones have had amusement parks that succumbed to disasters, bad press, and shifting entertainment markets. But for the adventurous, abandoned theme parks ...

Photojournalist Seph Lawless has taken pictures of 10 abandoned theme parks around the US. Theme parks, like Lake Shawnee Park in West Virginia, closed down after guests died at the park. The ...

Seph Lawless, an artist and chronicler of all things ruin-related, recently visited several of these abandoned amusement parks. He returned with some pretty creepy pictures. We’ve got a gallery.

It was demolished in 1928. Lansing's amusement parks Leadley Park, the first of Lansing’s two amusement parks, opened July 4, 1892 to huge crowds.

We previously looked at 44 notable amusement parks of the past. Here is another slew of defunct -- but not forgotten -- parks that helped shape Pennsylvania in the 1900s.