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Inside North Korea’s $800 million ‘hotel of doom’: The Brit who saw the empty pyramid up close

From most angles in Pyongyang, the Ryugyong Hotel looks finished and ready for guests. The glass skin is smooth, the 330-metre pyramid sharp against the skyline, its tip tapering into a neat, ...
Courthouse News Service

World’s Tallest Empty Hotel Lit Up With N. Korean Propaganda

Light designer Kim Yong Il smiles during a Dec. 20, 2018, interview as his creation, the light show displaying propaganda messages on the facade of the pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, is seen in the ...
EDN

How researchers discovered an empty 100-foot chamber in Great Pyramid of Giza

After announcing that they would use tomography to explore the Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu), a team of researchers from the ScansPyramids project discovered an internal ...
The Hamilton Spectator

Huge but empty pyramid hotel a sphinx-like North Korean mystery

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of — Pyongyang’s pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, which poetically enough was built with some help from Egyptians, is one of the world’s strangest ...