Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world. Construction on the "Hotel of Doom" began in 1987 and has stopped and started several times.

"Western tourists typically stay in just two hotels, but I'd always see these structures and wondered what they were," Scullin says of the city's other hotels that were designed f ...

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 ...

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