The Ryugyong Hotel – named after a historical moniker for Pyongyang meaning “capital of willows” – was supposed to open just two years later. But it never did. While the structure reached ...

North Korea's The Ryugyong Hotel has spent over 30 years under construction READ MORE: From hidden perks to bizarre requests: ...

A picture doesn't lie-- the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle. Not that you would ...

There are unfinished buildings all over the world, but the most mysterious—by far—is the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. Towering over the rest of the mid-rise city at ...

Pyongyang's pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, which poetically enough was built with some help from Egyptians, is one of the world's strangest landmarks and most conspicuous construction-project fails.

That pointy building in the center of the capital Pyongyang is the Ryugyong Hotel, also known as “the hotel of doom.” At a height of 1,079 feet (329 meters), it is the tallest unoccupied ...

If construction had been completed when it was first expected, in 1992, the Ryugyong Hotel would have been the tallest hotel in the world. Instead, the striking pyramid-shaped has never opened its ...

The Ryugyong Hotel was North Korea’s attempt to create the world’s tallest hotel and showcase national prestige. Construction halted in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union eliminated ...

Or someone is up there using the free electricity for some Bitcoin scheme." Construction of [Ryugyong Hotel] began in 1987 but was halted in 1992 as North Korea entered a period of economic crisis ...

A North Korean hotel that has been under construction for almost four decades plans to operate a casino on the premises in the hopes of finally booking in its first guest. The Ryugyong Hotel ...