A once thriving theme park, which attracted millions of visitors in its heyday, is now a ghost town - but not only that the ...

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 ...

An eerie abandoned amusement park in the heart of Berlin is being transformed after decades of decay. Spreepark was once a popular attraction in East Germany but has now stood empty for more than ...

Spreepark. Location: Berlin, Germany Entering this desolate place in Berlin on your own is verboten (“forbidden” in German), ...

An abandoned theme park with ghostly dinosaurs ... and a Viking ship with a decapitated dragon’s head at Spreepark in Berlin that now lies empty. At its peak it would attract 1.7 million ...

First opening in 1969 as East Germany’s only consistently-operating amusement park, it grew in popularity to the point that in the 1990s it was welcoming a total of 1.5 million visitors each year.

“But an abandoned amusement park is the exact polar opposite. It’s broken down. ... Named for the nearby River Spree, this Berlin park was operational from 1969 to 2001.

Although hundreds of theme parks are active around the globe, hundreds more have been relegated to the scrap heap of amusement history. Here are 10 of the most intriguing.

cheerful places,” says Jim Futrell of the National Amusement Park Historical Association. “But an abandoned amusement park is the exact polar opposite. It’s broken down. It’s empty.