The Largest Abandoned Building Has 105 floors

A hotel with 105 floors and 330 meters high stands out in the sky of the North Korea's capital

This represents the largest abandoned building in the world.

In 1987, workers began to build what should have been the tallest hotel in the world, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

The skeleton of the building was ready two years later, but the hotel did not fit in the engineers’ graphics, as they wanted the building to be opened in 1989. Later, in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, North Korea's ally, the works for Ryugyong Hotel were abandoned altogether.

The North Korean leader of that time, Kim Il-Sung, wanted this hotel to symbolize the country's flourishing tourism. But it has come to represent the opposite. The abandoned hotel seems to be the perfect symbol of the isolated communist nation's delusions of grandeur. Over 750 million dollars were invested in what started to be called "Hotel of Doom" writes esquire.com.

But Ryugyong Hotel is not dead yet. An Egyptian company, Orascom, has resumed the work on the project in 2008, adding glass on the outer surface of the building. Later, however, works at the luxury hotel have been abandoned again. According to recent information, the hotel would be hollow, lacking even plumbing or electricity.