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The always entertaining website Dark Roasted Blend is home to a two-part series about fright-inducing playgrounds from around the world. Cartoon characters—most of them unidentifiable—are featured. Russia predominates in this area of kid-centric creepiness.

Nightmare Playgrounds: Part One.

Nightmare Playgrounds: Part Two.

After the jump, some All American playgrounds that are just a wee bit disturbing.

Check out Flickr’s Old Playground Furniture Pool. What can I say? Although we beat the former Soviet Union to the moon, we will never catch up to them when it comes to mutant playground equipment. Still, there are s few gems such as these three wobbly whoozywhatsees from CoryG’s photostream:

—Anne D. Bernstein