The haunted amusement park



(You may know this one from the movie “Hanna”, this is were the showdown took place.)

Concealed within the lush greenery of the Treptow Park and barred by a rusty iron fence is the abandoned Spreepark. This former GDR amusement center, which opened in 1969 and was best known as ‘Kulturpark Planterwald,’ carries with it ghostly images of a bygone era.
The eerie site is located in the middle of Treptow Park in the...

2011, it seems, was the year when we Berliners, by choice or by birth, got hoisted by our own petard.

For years, we've been part of the coolest city on earth, "poor but sexy," as our mayor never ceases to crow, a Shangri-La of round-the-clock shenanigans unencumbered by dress codes, guest lists or closing hours.

We attracted visitors in ever increasing, self-multiplying hordes until, at some point, the attractions became harder and harder to find, and only...

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