It’s unclear who brought this segment to its dubious location.Īccording to Boyd Gaming Corporation, which owns Main Street Station, the Wall was already in the bathroom when the company purchased the property in the 1990s from another casino that went bankrupt before opening. Three urinals are mounted onto the graffiti-bearing concrete slab, which stands approximately three meters wide and 1.8 meters tall. Perhaps the most surprising Wall location on this list is a men’s bathroom at a Las Vegas casino – the Main Street Station Casino has been home to a portion of Berlin Wall for about 20 years. Main Street Station Casino, Brewery and Hotel, Las Vegas

However, a few segments of the Berlin Wall have over time ended up in some unexpected locations, far from Germany.

They were auctioned as art objects, purchased or donated to museums and institutions around the world, such as the Imperial War Museum in London and Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. More than 40,000 segments were crushed to make materials largely for building roads, but some survived intact. Nowadays, the longest surviving stretch, the East Side Gallery on Berlin’s Mühlenstrasse, extends about 1.3 kilometers and can be seen in its entirety on foot within 20 minutes.Īfter reunification of the two Germanys, 65 cranes, 175 trucks and 13 bulldozers were deployed to remove the barrier in the inner city by the end of 1990 and in the outer city by 1992, according to the “Berlin Wall Story,” a chronicle of the 204,100-ton monument written by Hans-Hermann Hertle. The onetime barrier between East and West has been torn down, chipped away or auctioned off.īetween 19, the formidable East German fortification stood 156.4 kilometers long, fully encircling what was then West Berlin.

Little of the Berlin Wall survives today in the German capital.

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