North Korea's Pyongyang unveiled renovations to the city's futuristic, pyramid-shaped 105-story Ryugyong hotel this week. The hotel which has taken decades to unveil is the world’s tallest unoccupied building, according to an Associated Press report.
Construction on the hotel nicknamed 'Hotel of Doom' was started in 1987 and has never been completed or opened to the public. The most recent visible development came five years ago, when window panes were installed.
However the AP report goes on to add that "a severe economic crash and famines in the 1990s left North Korea in no position to pump funds into the hotel’s construction."
It was originally slated to open in 1989.
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