Ruins

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

A ruined castle has more than its fair share of legends and ghost stories.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.