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Ruins

Stone blocks laid with no mortar make up a good portion of the ruins at Lubaantun.

Lubaantun Archeological Reserve

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

Germany's Real-Life Grand Budapest Hotel

Emily Wasik April 7, 2014

Sacsayhuamán

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

A Photographer Finds the Ghost of Woody Guthrie in an Abandoned Asylum

Allison Meier April 3, 2014

Rediscovering the Ruins of a Catastrophic WWI Explosion Everyone Forgot

Sarah Blake April 2, 2014

St. Thomas ruins.

St. Thomas Ghost Town

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Hegra, Saudi Arabia

Qasr al-Farid

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Classical Depravity: A Guide to the Perverted Past

Edmund Richardson March 24, 2014

White Lake Mansion House Ruins

White Lake, New York

White Lake Mansion House Ruins

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

Photo of the Week: Graffiti and Beer

Eric Grundhauser March 7, 2014

All that remians of the great Fleishhacker Pool

San Francisco, California

Fleishhacker Pool Ruins

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Welch Springs Ruins

Jadwin, Missouri

Welch Spring Hospital Ruins

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

The rock offers beautiful views of the Co. Laois countryside.

The Rock of Dunamase

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

Fort of Ratonneau

Marseille, France

Fort of Ratonneau

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

Photographing a World without People

Allison Meier February 17, 2014

Reconstruction of Villa Jovis by C. Weichardt (1900)

Villa Jovis

The Emperor Tiberius' palace of debauchery.

The Oval Forum in Jerash, and the Cardo Maximus

The Ruins of Jerash

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

Remains of they former village

Belchite, Spain

The Ruins of Belchite

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”