Abandoned Places That Are Trapped in Time
| February 27, 2017
Wonderland Amusement Park, China
In the 1990s, construction began on an elaborate, Disneyland-style theme park just outside of Beijing. However, a protracted fight over land prices with the local government left the site abandoned in 1998. Now, giant castles can be seen jutting out above farms, and children play on the unfinished structures. It has been rumored that the government is planning on putting a shopping mall on the abandoned site as workers have recently started tearing down buildings.
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