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The original ImageWorks: The What-If Labs, an interactive area ("the creative playground if the future" at Epcot's Imagination!  Pavilion, Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.  It was opened in October 1982 and closed in 1998.  The place is mostly intact but patrolled since then.  It was located on the second floor, and the new ImageWorks is on the first. 

These pieces of equipment were in the pavilion, according to Wikipedia:

Dreamfinder's School of Drama - Using a bluescreen, guests put themselves into a movie under the direction of Dreamfinder.  Choices were a western (Daring Deputies and the Return of Sagebrush Sam), a fantasy film (Enchanted Travelers — Wily Wizard the Cranky King), or a science fiction film (Acrobatic Astronauts in Galactic Getaway). 

Walt Disney bought this place in 1965 and opened the Treasure Island here in 1974.  Here was the biggest colony of Scarlet Ibises in the United States, but five Galapagos tortoises, flamingos, lemurs, swans, brown pelicans and the last known dusky seaside sparrow lived here, too. 

In 2009 there were some extensive plans to convert the island to a Lost-themed island, but the project never materialized. 

In the same year, an urban explorer named Shane Perez visited the abandoned island and found there abandoned buildings, preserved snakes in jars, old employee photos and attacking vulture babies.