China's Abandoned Wonderland

A farmer carries a shovel over his shoulder as he walks to tend his crops in a field that includes an abandoned castle-like building that was to be part of an amusement park called "Wonderland", on the outskirts of Beijing, China, on December 5, 2011. (Reuters/David Gray)

A crack in a footpath leading to an abandoned building that was to be part of the Wonderland amusement park, near Beijing, on December 5, 2011. (Reuters/David Gray)

Overgrown pathways and abandoned buildings, meant to be part of Wonderland, an abandoned amusement park northwest of Beijing, on December 5, 2011. (Reuters/David Gray)

An interesting photoessay from The Atlantic magazine on a failed development project in Beijing."   More...