The Tel Aviv Central Bus Station

How did Tel Aviv end up with the largest bus station in the world? Proposed as a solution to Tel Aviv’s old central bus station, its shell sat abandoned for almost 20 years and became the city’s “white elephant”. Eventually construction of this eight-floor maze was finished and it opened to the public in 1993 with hopes of the massive labyrinth becoming an urban center containing everything from an Asian food market to a nuclear fallout shelter. Unfortunately, these dreams never became reality.