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    There's An Abandoned Amusement Park In The Middle Of Berlin

    Aug 08, 2018 3 minutes
    A man looks at a Ferris wheel in Berlin as he stands with his bicycle outside the fence of the former amusement park Spreepark. (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images)

    There’s an empty 70-acre amusement park smack in the middle of Berlin that has stood almost unchanged since it was abandoned in the early 2000s.

    The place that today is called Spreepark was first developed in 1969 in what was then East Berlin, eight years after the rise of the Berlin Wall. That’s right: an amusement park in the former-communist, Soviet-allied German Democratic Republic.

    But the organizers in the East deliberately chose not to

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