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Follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Abandoned Land of Oz

When I was a kid, I was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz for my school musical. I was a very serious ten year-old and so I took the role very seriously. Another student had been cast as Dorothy’s pet dog, “Toto”, and stood next to me the entire time on stage wearing…
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Ruins of New York’s Great Lost Theme Park

There is a tiny island off the coast of New York home to a ruined castle. This mysterious ruin known as Starnburg Castle, almost looks as though it should be overlooking the Rive Rhine in Europe, rather than the city of New Rochelle. Whilst you might have discovered Bannerman’s Castle up the Hudson River, this smaller…

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A Counterfeit Dreamland Lost

When I share a new photographer’s (or anyone’s) work on this blog, I guess the ultimate hope is that they might get in contact one day with the news that they just had a sold out show or scored a publishing deal for their own book. Well recently, that hope finally became a reality when…

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Having a Grand Old Time at a Real-Life 1920s “Westworld”

Are you watching HBO’s new American sci-fi western thriller, Westworld? (Or at least trying to follow the twisted plot?). Based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 film of the same name, Westworld isn’t your typical historical theme park. Intended for rich vacationers who pay to live out their western fantasies, guests are welcomed to the pioneer town by artificially intelligent…

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Coney Island’s Short-Lived but Utterly Insane Dreamland

There’s no question that New York’s Coney Island is an utterly outrageous place; it’s most known for its freak shows, retro roller coasters, annual hot dog eating contest, and start-of-summer mermaid parade… and that’s all just the tip of the iceberg. It’s hard to believe it, but the wacky Brooklyn neighbourhood today is nothing compared…

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So in Japan, There’s an Abandoned American Cowboy Theme Park

Photographer Shane Thoms makes an excellent point when he says that abandoned theme parks are more fun to visit than active theme parks– especially when they’re creepy colonial cowboy-themed ones wasting away outside small remote towns in Japan. Shane Thoms is an Australian photographer who has a passion for decay, abandonment and disrepair, something he seems to…

Oh, just a Miniature Global Village in China

Hey, you know what’s better than actually travelling the world and seeing its wonders and historic sights first hand? Hitting up a Chinese miniature theme park, of course … ‘Windows of the World’ is a 480,000 square-meter global village theme park in Shenzhen, China, accommodating over a hundred miniature replicas of world famous historical sights. A fantasy…

Postcards from Hobbiton

Fans of The Lord of the Rings: unite! Non-fans who just like film sets and may or may not have Elvish tattoos anyway: unite! Oh, just me? Weird. Today we’re tumbling down the wildly intriguing rabbit hole and landing in some Hobbit Holes! In 1998, when Peter Jackson was scouting for the perfect location to…

One of Canada’s Biggest Tourist Attractions Was a Set of Quintuplets

When Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie and Marie Dionne were born in a rural Ontario house with no running water or electricity in 1934, no one expected them to survive. They were two months premature and at a combined 14 pounds, were each small enough to fit in one hand. But with the help of neighbors…

This Spinning Human Blender looks like a Very Bad Idea

I‘m no funfair prude. I’ll get on pretty much any rollercoaster you dare me to– but this? This just looks like one of those things you can’t quite believe was ever invented, like radioactive toothpaste or lime & cheese jello salad. From what I’ve learned, a modern-day descendent of the Rotor ride can still be found at a few theme parks around the…
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