
With its crumbling slides, buckling roller coaster tracks and hauntingly empty carousels, the derelict Nara Dreamland in Japan is enough to give anyone nightmares.

Chilling photos and a video shot inside the Disney-style resort, due for complete demolition imminently, reveal the decay of the once popular tourist attraction, which closed to the public in 2006.

Nara Dreamland was built in 1961 as Japan's answer to Disneyland, but low visitor numbers forced it to close decades later.

The land was not reused and the rides never dismantled, leaving the park, in the Nara Prefecture, in a state of suspended animation.

Now an American urban explorer, known as Michael, has captured a last collection of images and footage of the eerie attraction - the world’s largest abandoned theme park.

Michael climbed the creaking platforms to shoot roller coasters covered in rust, train carriages tagged with graffiti and the once vibrant pink castle, which has faded in the Nara sunlight.

Racing Slides: Eerie video footage and photos by an American urban explorer, known only as Michael, have revealed a last look at the largest abandoned theme park in the world

These chilling photos taken inside the Disney-style resort, due for complete demolition imminently, reveal the decay of the once popular tourist attraction, which closed in 2006. Above, the tracks of the Matterhorn rollercoaster are rusting and other creaking attractions are visible in the distance

Nara Dreamland was built in 1961 as Japan's answer to Disneyland, but low visitor numbers forced it to close decades later. Pictured are Matterhorn Bobsleds emblazoned with grafitti

The land was not reused and the rides never dismantled, leaving the park, in the Nara Prefecture, in a state of suspended animation. Pictured is a pickachu ride that's faded in the Nara sunlight

Michael walked the haunting empty platforms to photograph train carriages tagged with graffiti

The once vibrant pink castle, inspired no doubt by Disney, sits behind overgrown grassland

This Screw rollercoaster ride is empty of adrenaline junkies and families who would have once queued for its thrills

Buckled and rusting: The silhouette of these rollercoaster train rides look haunting against the sunset

Not such a dream: The spooky empty carousels are enough to give you nightmares

Child's play: The pastel coloured tea cup ride, popular with younger fairground visitors, is caked in mud and rust

An overview of the park shows the scale of what is now the largest abandoned theme park in the world

At a standstill: Rollercoasters at the Japanese theme park were left abandoned a decade ago and since then the park has been closed to the public

Naraland was originally built as a rival to Disneyland in California, which had opened the previous decade

No queues: It's an unfamiliar sight for many theme park fans to see monorail platforms like the one above empty