Haw Par Villa

Haw Par Villa (Singapore)

Heather suggests this bizarre attraction in Singapore.  From CNN: “Built in 1937 by Burmese-Chinese brothers Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par — best known for introducing the pain-relieving ointment Tiger Balm to the world — the park has more than 1,000 statues and dioramas vividly depicting Chinese folk tales, myths and Confucian beliefs…  the brothers certainly achieved something unique. Nowhere else in the world will you see a diorama of a woman breastfeeding an old lady — one of the charming displays in Haw Par’s hellishly popular underworld section.  The graphic, sometimes downright terrifying figures make the park a mutant mashup of Gaudi’s Parc Güell, in Barcelona, and a Madame Tussauds wax museum. Its intended purpose? To educate visitors in morality.”

Sounds FANTASTIC!

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The Comtesse DeSpair sits in sullen silence in The Castle DeSpair, obsessively reflecting upon the horrible void in which we exist. In her spare time (of which she has nothing but), she collects morbid trinkets and reads voraciously about the history of torture. She stores her trinkets in The Asylum Eclectica (http://asylumeclectica.com/). The Comtesse is hideously disfigured and thickly veiled at all hours. Once, an unfortunate servant caught a glimpse beneath the veil and was driven to madness. The Comtesse loves thunderstorms, darkness, and solitude.

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