Millennium Dome
From Frikipedia
Massive white elephant in the Docklands area of London. Note: Not actual elephant.
The Milennium Dome was, unsurprisingly, built for the Millennium celebrations and remains a glittering example of why politicians probably shouldn't be in charge of designing fun stuff to do.
Ran massively overbudget (i.e. it did a Wembley), but unlike other overbudget London constructs, could not really ever recoup the cash spent as it was only ever designed to be open for the year 2000.
Features of the Millennium Dome
Had a number of different "zones", including the Body Zone, where visitors were allowed to walk around massive scale models of the human body in a sort of grim macroscopic version of the film Innerspace.
The Dome Now
After numerous attempts to do something, anything, with this massive tent thing, the government finally offloaded it to mobile phone giant O2 in 2005(ish), who then redeveloped the inside as a massive music venue.
This has been a success, if by "success" you mean "excuse for Keane to play in front of massively exaggerated audiences".
Friki found that you can have a beer in one of the O2's many bars without seeing the Keane gig. Thankfully.
Served by North Greenwich tube stop.
