July 30, Pyongyang, North Korea

Begun in 1987, this 3,000-room 1,083-feet giant in Pyongyang has sucked up nearly 2% of North Korea’s GDP — and yet it remains unopened, unoccupied, and as yet uncompleted. A pair of German architects have set up Ryugyong.org, which they describe as an “experimental collaborative online architecture site" that contains 3-D models of the building…more