Ruins

The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.