North Korea has completed construction on a massive tourist resort boasting colourful water slides and swimming pools, state ...

From white elephants like North Korea’s so-called ‘Hotel of Doom’ to recent embarrassments like London’s Marble Arch Mound, here are some of the world’s epic tourist attraction fails.

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 ...

The £1.6 billion 'tower of doom' hotel which has NEVER had a single guest is looking for new investment to open. North Korea's The Ryugyong Hotel has spent over 30 years under construction ...

Construction has stopped and started several times since, and it's unclear when the structure will open. In 2008, Reuters reported it would take an estimated $2 billion to complete the hotel.

The long-stalled Ryugyong Hotel project in Pyongyang seeks foreign investment, with the government offering to establish a casino in the unfinished skyscraper. North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, ...

North Korea may be willing to grant casino rights inside the abandoned Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang. But first the investor must complete the interior of the hotel, which has been under construction ...

Construction on the Ryugyong — which means “capital of willows”, an ancient name for Pyongyang itself — began in 1987. Kim Il-sung, to whom grandson Kim Jong-un bears a close resemblance ...

It is North Korea’s creepily empty and embarrassing project, the futuristic but failed Ryugyong Hotel that juts skyward in the centre of the capital Pyongyang. Read Today's Paper Tributes.

Dreamt up in the 1980s as a show of North Korea's Cold War might, the Ryugyong Hotel has never, even briefly, opened its doors. Instead, it's been towering above North Korean capital Pyongyang for ...