During its heyday, Hopar Villa was one of Singapore's hottest attractions, drawing around a million visitors every year.

But Hopar Villa, it's not quite your average amusement park. Walk through the

grounds of this storied Singapore attraction, and what you won't see are Ferris wheels or clowns or, I don't

know, fried dough stands. Instead, everywhere you turn, there are statues. Fantastic, enigmatic, slightly terrifying

statues. I would say it's akin to walking through an Asian version of Alice in Wonderland.

There's a crab with a human head. There's a turtle serving tea to a deer. There's a crab with a human head.

There's a turtle serving tea to a deer.

There is a pool of frolicing mermaids.

But the park's most infamous attraction is the ten courts of hell,

which depicts in pretty graphic detail the horrible fate awaiting you in the afterlife should you commit bad behavior here on Earth.

Most people find the place spooky and scary.

Some even say that they were traumatized for many years to come when they visited it during their childhood.

I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas Obscira, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we're visiting Hell by way of Ho-Par Villa.

It's the story of one family, their fortune, and their tragedy.

If you grew up in the United States, you might have visited Disney World as a kid,

maybe hugged a cartoon mouse or seen the hall of presidents.

But Savita Koshyap had a different experience.

For her and so many other kids in Singapore, there was Ho-Par Villa.

And most memorably, it's ten courts of hell.

Just seeing the scenes of go and blood, you know, bodies being mashed up or boiling in hot

oil and people being thrown on stakes, you know, we frighten each other, my brother, my sisters

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