Inside Neverland: The stunning photographs of Michael Jackson's empty fantasy

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By Mail Foreign Service
3 July 2009

 

Gone is the zoo with its elephants, tigers and giraffe. The exotic snakes have long since slithered away, and the amusement rides have been dismantled.
The gates to Michael Jackson's fabled Neverland Ranch swung open yesterday to reveal a shell of the fantasy the boy-man had created when he was the King of Pop.

 

 Place of fantasy: Rays of light from inside Neverland Ranch shine among the stars in the early morning darkness yesterday

 

 

A ring of fresh white roses encircles a the front gate of the Neverland Ranch as millions mourn Jackson 's death

 

The front of the main house at Neverland Ranch

 

Looking down on the main entrance to the ranch

 

Inside the fantasy: The main room at the ranch. The door to the right leads to the kitchen

 

Neverland employee Erma Baron dries dishes in the kitchen of the main house yesterday

 

The master bedroom in the main house that was once used by Michael Jackson

 

The master bathroom, complete with giant bathtub and French doors

 

A hallway lined with windows leads away from the master bedroom of the main house

 

The interior of the ranch's poolhouse. When Jackson lived at the ranch, it was full of arcade games

 

The wine cellar under the poolhouse

A spiral staircase leading to a loft and an overlook room in the train station

 

The famous train station at the ranch yesterday, with its Neverland clock

 

Train tracks are seen from an upper window of the train station

 

Jackson drives a dodgem car while hosting a weekend party for underprivileged children at his Neverland ranch in 1994

 

The singer and ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley welcomed youngsters for World Childrens's Conference at Neverland in 1995

 

 

The interior of the small 'secret room' with three deadbolt locks used by Jackson to store valuable items

 

A door across from the main entrance in the main house overlooking the back grounds

An upstairs room in the main house

Looking up directly underneath a chandelier hanging over a lofted main entrance of the main house

A long banquet table stretches out under a tree in the grounds behind the main house

The driveway and grounds of the main house is seen from one of the upstairs windows

 

A bronze statue overlooks the road to the main house

Bronze statues line the drive leading to the front of the main house

 

A bronze statue of three children fishing in the creek behind the main house

 

Dinning room