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I visited The Land of Oz as a child - it had gondolas decorated as hot-air balloons in which Dorothy & Toto would ride at the end of an event. The Yellow Brick Road is still there, but people break in and steal bricks from it, so I don't know for how much longer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Oz_(theme_park)

The article didn't mention Heritage USA, Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker's Christian themed park and retreat just outside Charlotte NC. It lasted a few years, until the scandal brought it and the ministry down. My first boss out of college was the auctioneer who sold it at bankruptcy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_USA

And there I expected this to be political commentary...
I thought this would be about the suspiciously fast rise and fall patriotism in the United States just after Sept. 11.
We should go back to calling movies 'movie spectaculars' and TV shows 'TV spectaculars'.
Not knowing about the theme park, I thought the title was an apt metaphor for the history of that country.
As an American I clicked the link expecting it to be one of those quirky looks at national history.