Ruins

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This remote Scottish isle is only inhabited by seals, birds, and the memory of a tragic settlement.

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

These medieval ruins have survived since the 12th century, even providing shelter from the Nazis.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.