A gruesome "hell garden" at a Buddhist temple shows how followers believe sinners are tortured in the afterlife.<br /><br />The bizarre attraction, called the Wang Saen Suk Monastery Garden, is found near the religious temple in Chonburi, eastern Thailand.<br /><br />Monks have built dozens of gruesome figures - including people being boiled alive, tortured with machines or with the heads of animals.<br /><br />One terrifying statue even shows demons sawing off a man's genitals while another shows a crow pecking out someone's intestines.<br /><br />A pair of 20-metre-tall statues show a man and woman with their tongues stretched - the punishment in Buddhist hell for lying to parents.<br /><br />Another statue of a person with a pig's head features a plaque warning that the punishment for corruption is people in h ell with live as pigs.<br /><br />Buddhists believe that sinners who commit evil will encounter such punishments in the afterlife before they can be reborn. <br /><br />The temple garden is divided the area into three zones including the Buddha's journey, the Heaven and the most graphic section - the Buddhist h ell, also known as Naraka.<br /><br />It has also become a tourist attraction, with visitors travelling the 100km from Bangkok to see the horrifying images.<br /><br />The monks who created the 'h ell garden' said they had done it for educational purposes and to warn followers not to commit sins.<br /><br />One tourist who visited wrote on TripAdvisor that it was ''probably the strangest attraction I visited in Thailand''.<br /><br />Another added: ''The sculptors have let their imaginations run riot on the range of torments and tortures facing the damned.''
