ClownTown Amusement Park

Two years before the outbreak, this forlorn patch of over-grown, rusting downtown Stranglehold was abandoned because of emerging legal issues with the aging equipment. Having no money to fix the place or, the owner simply skipped town. The city officials had planned to bulldoze the place and build a strip mall, but the permits became mired in politics and people that wanted to preserve their childhood treasure. Nearly a decade later, ClownTown lays in exactly the position it was on the day it closed- roller-coaster cars permanently stopped mid-track, ticket-booths still holding rolls of tickets, open cash registers, and the caps of their former attendants. Food carts holding shriveled, rancid hot dogs and chicken kabobs waiting for the customers that never came. Occasionally, the winds get so rough that the main attraction, Tilt-o-Whirl, slowly spins in place, the ancient metal squealing under the massive ride's weight. Just a bit more wind and, at times, the roller-coaster carts move on their own, rolling forward or backward, passenger-less.