Jungfrau Park
Amusement park in Switzerland
Jungfrau Park was an amusement park located near Interlaken, Switzerland. It opened as the Mystery Park in 2003, and closed in November 2006 due to financial difficulties and low turnout. The park was designed by Erich von Däniken, and consisted of seven pavilions, each of which featured one of several great "mysteries" of the world.
Von Däniken opened the theme park to present his interpretations of archaeological sites around the world, claiming that they involve visits from extraterrestrial life. Since 2009 it has regularly re-opened for the summer seasons as the Jungfrau Park.
The Pavilions
Nazca featured the Nazca Lines near Nazca, Peru.
Contact featured cargo cults.
MegaStones featured Stonehenge.
Maya featured the Maya calendar.
Orient featured Great Pyramid of Giza.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jungfrau Park” is amusement park in Switzerland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jungfrau, Park and Amusement, not as a finished interpretation.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jungfrau Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.