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Playgrounds are not just for kids anymore, why shouldn't adults get in on the fun? Luckily there are a few spots around the world designed for full-grown people to swing, slide, and play tag (in this case, the laser variety). Grown up jungle gyms range from intense parkour training centers to adult-only XXX outdoor installations. We don't recommend hanging out at your local park on the mini monkey bars, but these 13 Adult Playgrounds to Visit Around the World let you feel young again.
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Chamber of Horrors
Location: Atlanta
If you're looking for an adult-sized scare, there are plenty of 18+ haunted houses across the US, but the Chamber of Horrors in Atlanta looks particularly terrifying. With near-BDSM fetish shows, torture, intense plot lines, and extremely realistic situations, there's no doubt this is not for children. Also, after you catch your breath and stop screaming, you can grab a drink at the Splatter Bar to try and calm your nerves.
Go Ape
Location: Berkshire, UK
Adventuring outdoors can be so much more than a hike. Go Ape takes ropes courses to whole new level. It's a forest adventure that really asks you to bring out your inner Tarzan. With 29 locations in the UK, no two forests are the same, creating a unique experience at every location.
Jeju Love Land
Location: Jeju-do, South Korea
A truly "adult" playground, Jeju Love Land is a modern sculpture park in South Korea that is filled to the brim with sex-oriented statues and art pieces. The park aims to educate on sex and sexual culture, with very detailed and realistic works filling the outdoor space as well as video installations. It's a little shocking but definitely full of fun photo-ops.
Chimpanzodrome
Location: Frechen, Germany
A level above your basic indoor rock climbing center, Chimpanzodrome is just as complicated as its name. Known as a training center for parkour specialists, the gym has hundreds of walls to choose from and classes available for all skill types.
Macombs Dam Park
Location: Bronx, NY
Macombs Dam Park in the Bronx is one example of a quickly growing trend in adult outdoor gyms. The park offers easy-to-use outdoor equipment as well as a social atmosphere for runners, body builders, and even the elderly to connect. These parks are aimed at getting adults back into fitness, but the fun way, not the scary diet and workout video way.
Shaw Park
Location: Yorkshire, UK
As part of The Great Outdoor Gym Company, Shaw Park is one of many new adult fitness playgrounds. Springing up all over the UK and North America, these outdoor gyms feature weatherproof gym equipment with instructional videos on their website. This gym also glows as you workout—the energy produced by visitors lights the park at night, another way to keep track of your workout.
Battle Axe Throwing League
Location: Toronto
A group of crazy, axe-wielding bearded gentleman in Toronto have started BATL, Battle Axe Throwing League. BATL offers accommodations for parties of 12 or more, where participants can learn the dangerous talent. The best part? Besides hanging out with some modern day axe throwers, it's BYOB.
Origins Parkour
Location: Vancouver,Canada
Parkour, street running, and buildering (climbing buildings) have been popular lately with the rise of Russian teenagers climbing skyscrapers and cranes. If this seems like something you'd be into, Vancouver has its own parkour training facility, Origins. Classes and workshops are available for both kids and adults in this massive, hand-built gym.
Black Pearl Skatepark
Location: Grand Harbour, Cayman Islands
As if visiting the Cayman Islands wasn't already a playground in itself, this destination also includes the world's best skate and surf park. The park was designed by actual skateboarders to ensure that it was fit for the pros. The massive park is 62,000 square feet and includes the innovative FlowBarrel wave machine. At 11 feet maximum capacity, the wave machine can be adjusted for any level of surfer. Black Pearl is perfect for both the vacationer or devoted skater.
Megazone
Location: Oslo, Norway
Megazone in Norway is not your typical obstacle course or laser tag game. Geared towards adult players, Megazone includes a Gladiatorz floor for battle-play, bull riding, sumo wrestling, Q-tip battle, and an obstacle course. Megazone also includes indoor paintball, but with rubber bullets, so don't worry about getting dirty at your cooperate event.
Kletterwand am Flakturm
Location: Wien, Austria
For history and adventure buffs, try climbing a re-purposed Flak tower. The towers were designed in 1940s as aboveground gun blockhouses to defend against air raids, but now one tower (Flakturm Wien) is the largest climbing tower in Austria. The towers have also been converted into cafes, aquariums, clubs, and a music school.
Mount Mitte
Location: Oslo, Norway
In Norway, there is a massive man-made beach, the largest inner city beach in Europe. Along with volleyball courts, beach soccer, and Frisbee, Beach Mitte also includes Mount Mitte, a gigantic wire course. An architectural masterpiece, the course has three levels and over 1,000 different activities. Of course, because it's for adults, it's also home to a bar.
Superkilen
Location: København, Denmark
Superkilen is the definition of an adult playground. We've seen examples that range from extreme sports to extreme design, but Superkilen finds a perfect balance of art and play. The park consists of a massive cycling track, as well as several pavilions or markets including The Red Square, The Russian Pavilion, The Black Market, and a green park. Superkilen is full of contemporary art and sculpture, and its architects, Superflex and BIG, won a 2013 Honor Award in Regional and Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects.