North Korea's The Ryugyong Hotel has spent over 30 years under construction READ MORE: From hidden perks to bizarre requests: the world of hotels revealed A North Korean hotel that has been under ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ryugyong Hotel in the center of North Korea's capital city Pyongyang, must count as one of the strangest building projects, not to say one of the ugliest, in the world. Construction began in ...

Then in 1992, after the collapse of ally and backer the Soviet Union, work stopped completely on Ryugyong Hotel. The 105-story, 1,083-foot structure protrudes above the rest of the North Korean ...

In this Dec. 18, 2018, photo, people cross a street as pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel is seen in the background in Pyongyang, North Korea. Transformed into the backdrop for a gargantuan propaganda ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea – 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...