Ruins

A major pre-Columbian archaeological site in central El Salvador.

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road

All that remains of a 16th-century Jesuit school is this carved, worn gate.

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.

Several 12th-century ruins can be found inside this historical market.

The ruins of a 17th-century Carmelite Convent atop a hill in Old Goa.

The millstones of an ancient Portuguese gunpowder factory have been kept on display at Old Goa.

Locals believe this abandoned ruin on the outskirts of Bucharest is haunted.

For centuries, this town's hot springs have been embraced by rich and poor—and even by Popes.

On one of the tiniest islands in the Caribbean lies a nearly 300-year-old syangogue.

This ruined castle is said to be the legendary keep of a Viking princess.

The remains of a 13th-century Romanesque church lie abandoned on a hillside.

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

The old ceramics factory on Boa Vista shows the power drifting sand has to destroy buildings.

The hulking remains of the Leesburg Lime Company Kiln lie dormant behind a historical marker close to the W&OD trail.

This Norman church survived the Reformation before suffering 300 years of neglect.