Ruins

One of the last surviving ancient Buddhist sites in the region, it escaped the brunt of several Hun invasions thanks to its remote location.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Tucked behind New Jersey's abandoned Gingerbread Castle lie the eerie ruins of a once-flourishing paper mill.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.