While the the opening of the Burj Dubai hogs the world's headlines, the Ryugyong Hotel, a 105-storey empty building in the heart of Pyongyang, North Korea, is in its 23rd year of construction and would cost 10% of North Korea's GDP to make inhabitable. Whether you are for or against the North Korean nuclear missile programme, you have to admit it it has been more successful than this. Honestly, I still wonder how Kim Jong Il's party was able to win all of the seats in the last North Korean elections after this building fiasco.
This is also very VERY NSFW, and I've been debating posting it for a few days because it's kind of gross and scatological and misogynistic, especially towards the end. But it's a catchy tune and in any case I couldn't really live with myself in a world where Marc and Vinny haven't seen such a superb videogame send-up.