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Amazing Abandoned Landmarks Given a New Lease of Life

  Instead of letting rotting, creepy buildings fall apart, people are actually flipping them into cool new spaces. In Berlin, the old Tegel Airport is getting turned into a massive residential community with thousands of apartments, a college campus, and a club, while the city's abandoned Spreepark amusement park is getting fixed up so the old Ferris wheel can finally run again. Meanwhile, old, terrible prisons like the Charles Street Jail in Boston and Bodmin Jail in England were completely gutted and rebuilt as high-end hotels where you literally sleep inside old jail cells and have drinks in what used to be the chapel or the warden's office. Then: Tegel Airport, Berlin, Germany Built in 1948 in just 90 days, Tegel Airport initially served as a French military base but opened to commercial aviation in 1958, and in 1975 replaced Tempelhof Airport as Berlin's main airport. Pan Am, Air France and British Airways