The Most Useless Megaprojects in the World

With countries like China and Saudi Arabia constantly building bigger and bigger, there are hundreds of megaprojects currently under development in the world. But sometimes things don't go according to plan. Sometimes, multibillion dollar projects end up being totally useless, abandoned, or worse. Here are the 15 most useless megaprojects ever built!

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[meganzee]

Why is the music louder than the narrator most of the time 😭

[Random-rtec]

The stronger more tyrannical the government the larger the megaproject blunders.

[willyreeves]

i would have thought the giant hotel in N Korea would make the list

[dennisalmy]

the music is too loud in this documentary

[greenyeyeshaley]

Love your videos, but you might want to rethink the volume of the background music.. it's distracting and makes the rest of the video hard to hear

[MrBertwieser]

Hi everyone in the comments. Hope you're having a great day

[soldfive]

Are you guys related??? Top Luxury did the same Video 3 weeks ago, even with the same thumbnail….

[ItsAllAboutGuitar]

And what do these projects have in common? Government. That's what you get when you let government make decisions. Lose the government, lose the failures.

[peacemaker]

Candi Hambalang, or stadion Hambalang in Indonesian please ITS the Mega corrupted project

[mikekratzer]

The big dig was a mess in construction, but the result is incredible. Including it you "useless" list makes me doubt them all.

[bongwelll]

This is disgusting with all the homeless in the world. There's enough for all of us

[canadianhouse]

I feel like these "vacant" cities aren't vacant at all!!! Human trafficking cities is what I detect

[guantou]

Just returned from a business trip to Kangbashi, a thriving community with new flight destinations constantly being added leaving Erdos airport needing an expansion. Also has the lowest crime rate in China, certainly not a ghost town as reported.

[karabates]

13:55 It's pounds not euros, Britain hasn't changed currency in centuries.

[danielobrien]

#8 is just that insane? I'm from Boston, and heard about some of the flaws and things that have happened in that tunnel but had no idea it would still take so long to pay off and that estimated cost.

[moonwalker]

Great video once again. I am just totally disgusted at the amount of money that is wasted on these megaprojects. Ridiculous :o(

[TheEbbemonster]

Awesome video! Usually these videos present the same content over and over again, while this one had a lot of unique projects that I hadn't heard of. I wonder is The Strip and Akon City will join the ranks in five years or so...

[slicer]

Lol I live in Nee Jersey and sorta close to that mall. It isn’t falling. It’s just off to a slow start.

[m.o.m.basiclifeskills]

Yucca My. Violated the "Rabbit TREATY" which is actually only an easement for the railroad company of the 1800s.

[eschdaddy]

Your info on Yucca mountain is completely wrong… other than the travel worries. It’s seismically inactive, was designed to be of significant size and was the US’ best chance for sustainable nuclear power.