Ryugyong hotel, known as the hotel of doom, is the unique skyscraper jutting out above everything else in north korea's capital city, pyongyang.

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.

The ryugyong hotel was such an embarrassment it was airbrushed out of some official photos.

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The project seemed abandoned until 2008, when it was announced it would be.

The skyline of the capital of north korea is dominated by an enormous pyramid.

Ryugyong hotel in pyongyang, north korea, is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world.

But weirdly, the hotel of.

It was a huge embarrassment.

North korea's tallest building is an abandoned hotel that has never hosted a single guest.

What is certainly true is that the ryugyong hotel remains empty and abandoned.

Take a closer look at the 'hotel of doom. '

The tallest building in north korea, originally designed to house 3000 hotel rooms, has never.

It was built by a south korean company, and the ryugyong hotel was partly conceived to steal away the westin stamford's record, as well as to open up a channel for.

North korea's 'hotel of doom' is the tallest abandoned building in the world.

Construction on the hotel of doom began in 1987 and has stopped.

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The ryugyong hotel towers up from the centre of pyongyang in north korea, unfinished 35 years after work on it began in a sign of the country's ambition and hubris

From 1992 to 2008, the ryugyong hotel stood, half finished, dominating pyongyang’s skyline, with a rusting crane perched on top.

Let's find out about the ryugyong, the abandoned 3000 room hotel of doom in north korea that's never had any guests!