Take a trip on an Appalachian road with no destination, or cross a bridge with nowhere to come from and nowhere to go. Visit a a town of 732 castles where nobody’s home, or a hotel of igloos in Alaska that’s never had any guests.

Political unrest, death, financial ruin, and failed permitting have stopped the construction of chapels, resorts, and roads in their tracks. But just because they’re incomplete doesn’t mean they’re worthless. Sometimes their unfinished state can make them all the more alluring. These are 11 places around the world that never made it to their final form, and are instead frozen in a state of incomplete perfection.