A new tourist attraction in London’s Marble Arch has fallen short of expectations, with visitors describing the £2m manmade mound as a “s**t hill” and “the worst thing I’ve ever done in ...

The man-made Marble Arch mound was commissioned by Westminster City Council and cost about £6m, nearly double its forecast of £3.3m. Tickets had been priced between £4.50 and £8, but after the ...

The mound was made as part of a program in the West End development but just after two days of opening, it was forced to shut. The closure was due to dead plants falling off the mound and needing to ...

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From white elephants like North Korea’s so-called ‘Hotel of Doom’ to recent embarrassments like London’s Marble Arch Mound, here are some of the world’s epic tourist attraction fails.