Wonderland was supposed to be a luxury outlet mall combined with a theme park. All that’s left today is the skeleton of a knock-off Disney Castle and a ridiculously large entrance hall with nothing inside–not ransacked, just incomplete.
“I love Panama!” exclaimed my cab driver.
“What do you love about Panama?” I asked.
“Everything!”
“Like what?”
“Um…” he thought for a while. “Like our resources!”
Krampnitz was abandoned by the Soviets in 1994. But the region’s history with military and abandonment goes way back.
Buckower Kleinbahn is a deserted child of the 19th century Prussian Eastern Railways, an extensive rail network that traveled from Berlin to well past Königsberg (present day Kaliningrad in Russia). Today, it’s run by a bunch of train enthusiasts.
On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg took off from the military airfield in Rangsdorf on a mission to assassinate Hitler. He planted a bomb under a conference table. The bomb did go off, killing four people–Hitler was not one of them. But this isn’t Rangdorf’s only claim to fame. Beate Uhse, Germany’s godmother of sex toys, once worked here as a pilot.
“Psssst!” A volunteer at the prestigious Recoleta cemetery pulled me close, and whispered, “I hate that bitch Evita.”
It’s not often you go to one of the most celebrated (not to mention expensive) restaurants in a city and find it covered with graffiti.
Welcome to Buenos Aires.
Rampant counterfeit bills, chronic coin shortage, fictional exchange rates, mounting foreign debts…
Argentina has some serious money problems.
These are colors of Georgia:
Sunset on the train.
Currywurst was said to have been inspired by American soldiers eating steaks with ketchup. Hamburg and Bremen both lay claims to …