Situated on an area of around 100 acres, and 45 minutes drive from the center of Beijing, are the ruins of ‘Wonderland’. Construction stopped more than a decade ago, with developers promoting it as ‘the largest amusement park in Asia’. Funds were withdrawn due to disagreements over property prices with the local government and farmers. So what is left are the skeletal remains of a palace, a castle, and the steel beams of what could have been an indoor playground in the middle of a corn field.

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A few months back, I was trying to dig up some information on this park.  Some people were speculating that it was a covert attempt by the Disney company to build a park in Beijing, and I tried to get to the bottom of it to find out the real source of the pictures I was seeing (the completed parts of the castle are blue and pink, like the castle at disneyland in california) .  Now, the mystery is solved