Haw Par Villa (Classic)
5/7/202614 min
This amusement park in Singapore holds the Ten Courts of Hell, a series of dioramas that depict the kind of horrible fates awaiting people who behaved badly on Earth.
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Dylan Thuras· Host0:35
[Instrumental music] During its heyday, Haw Par Villa was one of Singapore's hottest attractions, drawing around a million visitors every year. But Haw Par Villa, it's not quite your average amusement park. Walk through the grounds of this storied Singapore attraction, and what you won't see are Ferris wheels or clowns or, I don't know, fried dough stands. Instead, everywhere you turn, there are statues, fantastic, enigmatic, slightly terrifying statues.
Savita Koshyap· Guest1:20
I would say it's akin to walking through an Asian version of Alice in Wonderland.
Dylan Thuras· Host1:25
There's a crab with a human head.