Ruins

A school destroyed by fire and tsunami simultaneously is preserved as a memorial.

Czechoslovakia’s first competition pool, now a decaying ruin of a functionalist marvel.

This ancient Roman cistern has been the source of many legends throughout the centuries.

A Roman amphitheatre turned meeting spot for witches.

This abandoned building with a murky history has been both a school and a prison.

Faded remnants of the entrance to a Mediterranean-style resort that never fully came to life.

Old ruins of a church from the 1200s.

Former Italian settlement on the isle of Rhodes was a WWII command center before being abandoned.

A living example of historical stratification: a Roman amphitheater, a medieval farm, and modern town square.

An old, partly destroyed church, preserved in the state it was left in after a fire.

The ruins of one of the most important Roman villas north of the Alps.

Discover the ruins of medieval paper mills, a scenic gorge, and a museum celebrating centuries of paper production.

A preserved Nazi munitions factory hidden in the forest, now a quiet memorial to those who once labored and suffered there.

The towering ruins of a mill that never produced a single sheet of paper.

An abandoned Ontario prison turned over to time and nature.

The only Ottoman Mosque in Attica outside central Athens.

Castle ruins of the not-so-chaste baronessa whose lovers mysteriously disappeared.

Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.