Shanghai Stunt City: A Forgotten Egyptian-Themed Park

I was originally just planning a normal weekend trip to Changxing Island. While looking up the route, I stumbled onto the name of an amusement park that had been closed for nearly twenty years: Shanghai Stunt City Paradise.

It was reportedly built in the 1990s, but today it only survives as an obscure memory for a very specific subset of middle-aged people in Shanghai. Even Google barely returns anything useful about it.

The place had briefly become popular online recently, mostly because word got out that it was finally going to be demolished. It felt like if we didn't go look at it now, it would be gone completely in a year or two. The posts I found had these dramatic close-up shots of ruins, but by the time we actually got there, a lot of the site was already torn down or completely blocked off by high construction walls.

On Saturday, the only things greeting us were rubble.

The famous Egyptian Pharaoh Wall — the one piece everyone always photographs — was locked behind heavy iron gates, so I could only shoot it from a distance.

What remained accessible was a single, lonely building with a few decaying statues scattered around it. They looked completely out of place against the overgrowth.

For anyone curious: this forgotten Egyptian theme park is currently sitting in Xianfeng Village on Changxing Island, Chongming. You won't find a POI for it on most maps. If you are really determined to navigate there, head for the intersection of Fengnan Road and Fengxi Road, then go west on Fengnan Road for about 50 meters.

You can cover everything left to see in about ten minutes. If you happen to be driving past, it is an interesting quick stop. But honestly, if you are planning to make the drive out there just for the ruins, it is probably not worth the trip anymore.