This is no longer tentatively into the future: The Alystra has burnt down. There will be a memorial service held for it sometime soon. I'm putting up pictures of it burnt down, the memorial service when it happens, and the empty lot when it makes it to that point.

However, here is the place: The Alystra. Goodbye my fair friend...

This casino has been abandoned since October 1997. It was built and is owned by some rich tennis player who has no mind for location. There are holes in the walls, ceiling, windows, towers; two barbies nailed to the wall in the 69 position smack dab in the middle of a spraypaint pentagram; golfclubs stuck into the walls; tons of graffiti including one of the few intact rooms that is saturated in hangman games and song lyrics; a room that has been made into a cozey living room and another that is a bedroom...

For all these reasons and more, this is my favorite place on earth.

And now for a few pictures.

Be forewarned, to my knowledge these were NOT photoshopped.