16 photos of abandoned Disney resorts that will give you the creeps

The abandoned River Country.Seph Lawless

• Walt Disney World's Discovery Island was left to rot in 1999 and has been untouched since — except for one man who was discovered living on the island during the coronavirus shutdown.
• River Country was the first water park at the Walt Disney Resort, but three children died there.
• Nara Dreamland, a Japanese version of California's Disneyland, was left abandoned before being demolished in 2016.

Anything that's been abandoned is creepy to begin with, but abandoned Disney parks have a particularly unsettling quality to them that's hard to shake.

Disney has ditched several projects over the years for various reasons, but often these parks have been left intact to decay naturally over time. The result is eerie remains of what once was part of "the happiest place on Earth."

Take a look inside a few of the Disney — and Disney-adjacent — theme parks that have abandoned over the years.