Ruins

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.