Years before the phrase “clever girl” even entered the pop cultural lexicon, the Cuban government conscripted inmates to build over 200 weirdo concrete dinosaur sculptures at the Baconao Park outside of Santiago de Cuba.
On Valle de la Prehistoria’s 11-hectare terrain, entire geological time periods compete for space. Drunk-looking ankylosauruses share the field with a woolly mammoth hunt and a rather forlorn tyrannosaurus, whose anatomy is tremendously outdated.
It is somewhat like if a deranged millionaire devoted an empty nature preserve to an oversized recreation of a child’s grade-school diorama. The giant, open-loinclothed caveman at the gate does not add to the overall sense of normalcy.
And for more low-budget saurian insanity, see these roadside dinosaurs, this abandoned Michigan park, the kissing dinos of Mongolia, this Arizona creepshow, and the Civil War dinosaur park of Virginia.
https://gizmodo.com/behold-americas-most-ridiculous-roadside-dinosaurs-5880948
https://gizmodo.com/michigans-abandoned-dinosaur-amusement-park-is-way-cree-5525873
https://gizmodo.com/on-the-border-of-china-and-mongolia-you-can-find-two-d-5872223
https://gizmodo.com/meet-arizonas-dilapidated-roadside-dinosaurs-5808608
https://gizmodo.com/the-alternate-history-theme-park-where-dinosaurs-fought-5084491
Spotted on Remezcla and Atlas Obscura. Via Maar345, RDMazo, Johan Van Moorhem, Eduiturri, Sjaak van Duivenvoor, Havana Times, Sven Marrisen, Edilberto Lopez.
