The chance to live in a land of childhood nightmares only comes around once in a lifetime. Spreepark, an amusement park in Berlin that’s been closed for over a decade, could now be yours. The property was recently listed on eBay for a cool 1.62 million Euros.
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If you’ve watched with envy as the internet fills up with endless photo galleries of abandoned buildings in Detroit, perhaps now is your time to get in on the action: for the low, low price of only $45, you can buy a ticket and take locally-run "tours of abandoned factories, churches and schools." A Detroit ruin tour takes 3 hours, and taps into your inner J.M.W. Turner.
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You know you feel it—that mix of envy and amazement when your hear Lorde’s music. The lyrics feel moody, wise and even fanciful at times. The beats are sturdy. And Lorde herself, she’s only 17 years old! What were you doing when you were 17?
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We can do a lot with Photoshop, from faking entire military operations to whatever this is. But sometimes, low-tech trickery is just more fun
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We Americans tend to conceptualize "old" in very recent terms—which explains our collective fascination with ruin porn. If the decay of European cities receives less attention, it’s just because it’s much more ubiquitous. French photographer and self-described "urban explorer" Thomas Jorion has made a career out of seeking out and photographing these lesser known spaces—from an ice-crusted Bulgarian monument to a rotting gas storage silo, seen above.
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