The document lists and briefly describes 10 abandoned hotels around the world. It includes hotels in small island nations like the Cook Islands and French Polynesia that bankrupted their countries. Other abandoned hotels mentioned are the 1920s art deco Lee Plaza hotel in Detroit, the unfinished 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, and the Hotel Polissya in Pripyat, Ukraine that was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster. The list highlights some of the social, economic and political reasons these hotels fell into disuse over time.