Tag: Ruins
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Magadan
gulag sites and ghost towns - Amongst the most exotic destinations it is (just about) possible to travel to as a tourist – far out in Asian Russia , in...
Okawa School Memorial
Okawa Elementary School - The ruins of a school that was especially badly, and exceptionally tragically, hit by the 2011 tsunami disaster in Japan .
PLTD Apung 1
stranded power generating ship, Banda Aceh This is the second most important tsunami-related sight in Banda Aceh (after the Tsunami Museum ).
Hohensax Castle
Hohensax (German: Ruine Hohensax or German: Burg Hohensax) is a ruined castle in the Sennwald municipality in the Swiss canton St. Gallen.
Neu-Aspermont Castle
is a ruined castle in the municipality of Jenins in the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Mydlovar Castle
Castle ruin in Czechia. Mydlovar Castle is a notable abandoned site in Šnepov, Czech Republic, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Lukov Castle
is a large ruins of a Gothic royal castle in Lukov municipality in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic.
Bramburg
Castle ruin, Hemeln. Bramburg is a notable abandoned site in Hann. Münden, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Klingenhorn Castle
is a ruined castle in the municipality of Malans of the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Neu-Baumburg
Castle (German: Burg Neu Baumburg, also Neu-Bamberg, Neuenbaumburg, Novobeimburg and Neubamberg) is a ruined castle in the town of Neu-Bamberg in...
Blanche Garde
Castle ruin. Blanche Garde is a notable abandoned site in Southern District, Israel, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Heidenberg Castle
is a ruined castle in the municipality of Obersaxen Mundaun of the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Marmels Castle
German: Burg Marmels is a ruined castle in the municipality of Marmorera in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Burg Lupburg
Castle ruin in Germany. Burg Lupburg is a notable abandoned site in ループブルク, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Lichnice Castle
The ruins of Lichnice Castle (also: Lichtenburk Castle) are on the edge of the Iron Mountains, near the Czech village of Podhradí, in the municipality of...
Auerburg
Castle ruin. Auerburg is a notable abandoned site in Oberaudorf, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Burg Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Haldenstein of the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Kalø Castle
(Danish: Kalø Slot) is a ruined castle located in eastern Jutland, in Denmark, 20 km from the city of Aarhus within Mols Bjerge National Park.
Rudelsburg
The Rudelsburg is a ruined hill castle located on the east bank of the river Saale above Saaleck, a village in the borough of Naumburg in the county of...
Burg Henneberg
Castle ruin. Burg Henneberg is a notable abandoned site in Meiningen, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Burg Dellingen, Waldhausen-Bräunlingen, Schwarzwald-Baarkreis
Castle ruin. Burg Dellingen, Waldhausen-Bräunlingen, Schwarzwald-Baarkreis is a notable abandoned site in Bräunlingen, Germany, known for its unusual...
Burg Hohenbregenz
Castle ruin in the municipality of Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria.
Burg Kropfsberg
Kropfsberg Castle (German: Burg Kropfsberg) is a castle in Tyrol, Austria that stands at 526 metres (1,726 ft) above sea level.
Helfenburk
is a castle ruin in the municipality of Krajníčko, 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) from the town of Bavorov in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Burg Losenstein
Losenstein Castle or Burg Losenstein is a castle ruin in Upper Austria.
Klenová Castle
(Czech: Hrad a zámek Klenová) is a large castle located in southwest Bohemia near the town of Klatovy.
Heinzenberg Castle
German: Burg Heinzenberg is a ruined castle in the municipality of Cazis in the Viamala Region of the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Burgruine Hardegg
is a small Romanesque twin castle complex on a wooded hill north of the town of Zweikirchen in Carinthia, Austria.
Burg Hatzfeld
Castle ruins in Germany. Burg Hatzfeld is a notable abandoned site in Hatzfeld, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Burg Liebeneck
Castle ruin in Germany. Burg Liebeneck is a notable abandoned site in Greding, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Karosta, Liepaja
Karosta - former naval base, Liepaja The formerly closed garrison town and Soviet naval base that takes up the northern part of the coastal city of...
Capilla del Pocito
The Pocito Chapel, built from 1777 to 1797 in the village of Guadalupe, near Mexican City, is, with no doubt, the most original work of the colonial...
Scenography for King Lear
If we now look at the intervention carried out in 1999 by the architect Luis de Longhi for the representation of King Lear in the ruins of the burned and...
Ebro
to Roughly the area of north-eastern Spain /Catalonia where the Battle of the Ebro was fought in the Spanish Civil War .
Oradour-sur-Glane
A former village in France which in WWII was virtually wiped out on 10 June 1944 when SS -soldiers (of the "Das Reich" unit) massacred nearly the entire...
Merburg
is a ruined small castle near Homburg, Saarland, Germany. Details about the castle's builders and most of their owners are unknown.
The Monastery of Abba Shenouda
The monastery was founded by Saint Pigol, the maternal uncle of Saint Shenouda (Schenute) the Archimandrite in 442 AD.
Kokořín Castle
(Czech: Hrad Kokořín) is a castle located in Kokořín in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Burg Hohenfels (Oberpfalz)
Castle ruin in Germany. Burg Hohenfels (Oberpfalz) is a notable abandoned site in Hohenfels, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins & memorial hall
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins The landmark WWII church ruin in West Berlin , the main tower left in its semi-collapsed state to serve as a...
Topography of Terror
'Topography of Terror' This is the site, right in the middle of central Berlin , where the very nerve centre of the Third Reich 's Nazi reign of terror...
Anti-War Museum
A small private museum in Berlin with a big mission: promoting pacifism and – as the name implies – "fighting" against all war.
Ondrejsky cemetery
A relatively small, no longer in use cemetery near the centre of Slovakia 's capital Bratislava .
Belhacem
Castle ruin. Belhacem is a notable abandoned site in Lebanon, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
DMZ, Vietnam
DMZ, Central Vietnam An area in Central Vietnam which used to be the "demilitarized zone" (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam.
Laubegg Castle
Ruin of the castle in Boltigen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland.
Tschanüff Castle
is a ruined castle in the former municipality of Ramosch (now Valsot) of the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
A-Bomb Dome
The ruins of the former "Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall", gutted by the atomic bomb – ever since it has been THE landmark of Hiroshima ,...
Château de Lagarde
The Château de Lagarde is a ruined castle situated near the village of Lagarde, 8 km (5 mi) southeast of Mirepoix in the French département of Ariège.
Ehrenfels Castle
(German: Burg Ehrenfels) is a ruined hillside castle above the Rhine Gorge near the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein in Hesse, Germany.
Königstein Castle
Castle ruins in Königstein in the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, Germany.
Burg Krems
is a castle in Styria, Austria. Burg Krems is 330 metres (1,080 ft) above sea level.
Burg Loch
Castle ruin in Pinswang, Austria. Burg Loch is a notable abandoned site in Pinswang, Austria, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Helfštýn
(German: Helfenstein, Helfstein) is a castle ruin in Týn nad Bečvou in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.
Godesburg
The Godesburg is a castle in Bad Godesberg, a formerly independent part of Bonn, Germany.
Manegg Castle
The ruins of the castle Manegg are situated on the eastern slopes of the Albis range in the canton of Zürich, near Leimbach and the residential area of...
Shushi
lost places : Shushi ( formerly ) The second largest town in Nagorno-Karbakh , and one that played a decisive role in the war in the 1990s, when it was...
Château de Montaillou
The Château de Montaillou is a ruined castle in the French village of Montaillou, in the Ariège département.
Hünenberg Castle
Castle ruin in Hünenberg in the canton of Zug, Switzerland.
Marienthal government bunker
( for speakers of German) A part of a formerly huge underground nuclear bunker at Ahrweiler and Marienthal near Bonn that was to serve as the emergency...
Neu-Bubenberg Castle
Castle ruin in Köniz in the canton of Bern, Switzerland.
Helfenberg Castle
Castle ruins in Hüttwilen in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland.
Atsena Otie Key
is an island and ghost town one-half mile offshore of Cedar Key, Florida.
Boyneburg
Castle ruin. Boyneburg is a notable abandoned site in Sontra, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Merkenstein ruins
The Merkenstein ruins are the remains of a castle in Lower Austria near Bad Vöslau in the Großau cadastre (property register).
Burg La Tur
Castle ruins in Reischen in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland.
Sajmiste
The principal site of the Holocaust in Belgrade and one of the (almost) "forgotten camps".
Makronisos, Greece
Makronisos - Another former prison/exile island in the Aegean Sea in Greece – cf. the better known Yaros .
Gueorguiadi House
*** Article written by Alexandrina Marinova *** Plovdiv. The second largest city in Bulgaria and one of the oldest in Europe.
Agdam
lost places : Ağdam ( formerly ) This used to be largest ghost town in the world – formerly a city of ca.
Iberg castle ruin
Iberg Castle (German: Ruine Iberg) is a ruined castle located on Iberg mountain in the municipality of Riniken in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Saffenburg
Castle ruin. Saffenburg is a notable abandoned site in Mayschoß, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Šostýn
Castle ruin. Šostýn is a notable abandoned site in Kopřivnice, Czech Republic, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Old train station earthquake ruin, Skopje
Earthquake ruin of Skopje train station The remainder of what used to be Skopje 's main train station until the disastrous earthquake of 1963 caused part...
Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Centre
Tsunami & Disaster Mitigation Research Centre A complex clustered around a new tsunami escape building that doubles up as an education & community centre,...
Tsunami monument in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka
Tsunami Memorial in Yala National Park Yala National Park, rather than a decidedly dark place, is actually Sri Lanka 's premier wildlife spotting area,...
Case di Vacanze
From the outside, it looks like a ruin. A construction of stacked stones (three different granite colors found on the site that produces a magical, almost...
Žebrák Castle
(Czech: hrad Žebrák) is a castle ruin in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
Residential & Commercial Complex at Grunwaldzki Square
This article is part of the [Sí] , a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality.
Great Zimbabwe
is a ruined City located in the southeastern hills of Zimbabwe and the province of Masvingo.
La Coupole
This is one of the most massive relics that Nazi Germany left in France during its occupation of the country in WWII : a gigantic concrete dome under...
Burgruine Straßfried
is a castle in Carinthia, Austria. It is located next to the Austrian–Italian border by Arnoldstein in Carinthia.
Likava
Castle (Slovak: Likavský hrad) is a castle in the village of Likavka which is a part of the Ružomberok District in Slovakia. It is mostly in ruins.
Lichtenberg Castle
(German: Burg Lichtenberg), also called the Heinrichsburg ("Henry Castle"), is a ruined castle dating to the 12th century in the Lichtenberge hills (the...
Ani
A city of ruins in the far east of Turkey .
Burg Hausfreden
Castle ruin in Lower Saxony, Germany. Burg Hausfreden is a notable abandoned site in Freden, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Biegenburg
Castle ruin. Biegenburg is a notable abandoned site in Fronreute, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Château de Quéribus
The Château de Quéribus (in Occitan Castèl de Querbús) is a ruined castle in the commune of Cucugnan in the Aude département of France.
Šomoška Castle
(Slovak: Šomoška hrad, Hungarian: somoskői vár) are the ruins of a castle located in the village of Šiatorská Bukovinka in the Banská Bystrica Region of...
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
A former mental hospital in West Virginia, USA , which is not only a massive neo-gothic architectural landmark but also a dark tourism destination: there...
Iberg, medieval castle ruins
Iberg Castle (German: Burg Iberg) is a partly ruined castle in Wattwil in the Toggenburg region of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Castles of Manderscheid
Near the Eifel town of Manderscheid are the ruins of two castles, the castles of Manderschied, whose history and location reflect the mediaeval conflict...
Nanstein Castle
(German: Burg Nanstein) is a ruined medieval spur castle above the town of Landstuhl, Germany, which has been partially reconstructed.
Vanadzor
Armenia A provincial city in northern Armenia , listed here for its sprawling industrial wastelands of former Soviet chemical plants.
Oberfeld / Helfenberg, Medieval Castle Ruins
Castle ruins in the municipality of Gossau in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Raffenburg
Castle ruin. Raffenburg is a notable abandoned site in Hohenlimburg, Germany, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Stein Castle
(German: Schloss Stein or Ruine Stein) is a castle ruin above the municipality of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Hohenstaufen Castle
(German: Burg Hohenstaufen) is a ruined castle in Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
INTERSECTION FIELDS III: Michiel Brinkman vs. Peter and Alison Smithson
This article is part of “Intersections Fields”, a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we publish the casual connections between projects from...
Gyumri
Armenia Gyumri is the second largest city in Armenia (after Yerevan ) and functions as the capital of the remote Shirak region in the north-west of the...