http://www.francethisway.com/images/places/chateau-gaillard.jpg
Château Gaillard
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:06 (fifteen years ago)
http://justenglishcottages.com/photogalleries/north-yorkshire/zim/Fountains-Abbey/92FountainsAbbey.jpg
Fountains Abbey
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)
Can we post non ANCIENT things here? Like menacing Nazi fortifications on the channel islands...
http://alex.fortif.net/images/ostrovy/r001-032.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/f13x0.jpg
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:12 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.outremer.co.uk/images/tower/krak.jpg
Krak des Chevaliers
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)
I do actually really love ruined WWII fortifications, so if they are properly abandonned and ruined I will allow them.
(What I don't want, is loads of decaying industrial factories and the like. Those have their own thread, I believe. I want castles and forts and abbeys and mysterious arrangements of rocks that you can't quite tell what they ever were.)
((Also, follies, though not technically ancient, are cool enough to be allowed))
http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/images/pictures/02/82/mow-cop-folly-27458.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:17 (fifteen years ago)
Better photos here:
http://www.mowcop.com/
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:18 (fifteen years ago)
I don't know if this napoleonic fort fits with the above criteria, but it was heading that way, being somewhat on fire when we passed it
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2246/1880122176_327d9c73ae.jpg
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)
It wasn't on fire, they were just burning junk in the central courtyard, IIRC. What a weird place that was! I was trying to remember where the odd fort-like folly (?) along the coast towards the Needles was, but got distracted by work.
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:31 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.jacklondonpark.com/WolfHouse3-1.JPG
Jack London's Wolf House
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:46 (fifteen years ago)
Wow! What are those odd fireplaces that seem to be suspended in mid air? Were there presumably another story or two in wood that is now gone?
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:49 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah. He and his wife built their dream house
http://www.fineartandhistory.com/images/wolfhouse-bw.jpg
And several weeks before they were to move in, it burned.
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:52 (fifteen years ago)
SOUTHWEST REPREZENT!
Rhyolite, Nevada
http://photos.igougo.com/images/p7274-Rhyolite-Cook_Bank.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:30 (fifteen years ago)
Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Mesa_verde_cliff_palace_close.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:31 (fifteen years ago)
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
http://planetpooks.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/chaco-canyon.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:33 (fifteen years ago)
Canyon de Chelly
http://www.expeditionswest.com/adventures/2003/canyon_de_chelly_2003/images/4.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:38 (fifteen years ago)
Nazca, Peru
http://westcoastconnection.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/nazca-lines1.gif
Those cliff dwellings are the BIZNIZZ. I was hoping for strange stuff I hadn't seen before and those are amazing. That last one with the two gaping caves on either side is almost lovecraftian.
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)
It may not look like much, but here's the Lost City Of Ubar
http://www.davestravelcorner.com/photos/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_Oman-Ubar.JPG
The story of its rediscovery is pretty amazing and is like a roundup of everything I find cool: lost cities, the space shuttle, ancient roadways, and desert road tripping. If drone rock fit into it somehow I'd completely lose it.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:42 (fifteen years ago)
Tenochtitlan
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Ruins_of_Tenochtitlan.JPG
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:45 (fifteen years ago)
Machu Picchu
http://onearthtravel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/machu-picchu.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:47 (fifteen years ago)
Serpent Mound, Ohio
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2DP3vFOI5tc/SPr7KZL4tzI/AAAAAAAABtw/jt-tAqHeW-A/s400/serpentmoundpc.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:48 (fifteen years ago)
The architecture is so different from what I'm used to. Like they're building these massive structures and not even using arches. So strange looking and beautiful. (My archetypical idea of "ruins" clearly involves massive pointy gothic arches because I'm used to medieval Euro stuff.)
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 17:50 (fifteen years ago)
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon (can't stress how U&K a visit to Chaco Canyon is... there's a reason why Sagan put in Cosmos)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Chaco_Canyon_Pueblo_Bonito_doorways_NPS.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:51 (fifteen years ago)
Chaco canyon is all the more intriguing because there's every indication it was not inhabited.
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)
Blythe Intaglios. Nazca isn't the only place where there are ancient geoglyphs. There's about 200 of these along the Colorado River in California and Arizona
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/3140812745_3c6c9c9ea9.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.culturefocus.com/syria/pictures/palmyra-6small.jpg
Palmyra
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:00 (fifteen years ago)
Palenque
http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles/a101_Palenque1.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:01 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/sevcik/palenque-mayan-ruins--mayan-ruins-1.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:02 (fifteen years ago)
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_tt5Fzuyo1nc/SB4L64QSJkI/AAAAAAAAFZQ/YLV0lcZgjns/s640/image1-12.jpg
Persepolis
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:03 (fifteen years ago)
Ephesus, Turkey
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/1b/2e/e4/celso-s-library-ephesus.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:03 (fifteen years ago)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/348306257_19eb35196e.jpg
― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:04 (fifteen years ago)
Had to google Palenque, coz yr first link didn't show, but is this the one, with the crazy vaguely pagoda shaped tower?
http://www.crystalinks.com/palenque.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:04 (fifteen years ago)
All Hail Chichen Itza
http://desktopnature.com/4271-2/Ancient+Mayan+Ruins_+Chichen+Itza_+Mexico.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:05 (fifteen years ago)
That's it. Palenque is pretty much o_O for off-the-charts Mayan architecture.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://static.atlasobscura.com/images/place/michigan-central-station.10446.large_slideshow.jpg
Michigan Central Station
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/michigan-central-station-jeremy-blakeslee.jpg
MCS FAT
― JIMMY MOD THE SACK MASTER (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:10 (fifteen years ago)
This is all reminding me of one of my little obsessions... GOBEKLI TEPE!!!
http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/Images/countries/Turkish%20pics/Gobeklitemple.jpg
Which might well be (if some historians are to be believed) the place where agriculture and, well, civilization as we know it (t.m.) or at least agriculture was invented!
x-posts NO NO NO NO NO, that's exactly the sort of thing I don't want. ANCIENT, I SAID ANCIENT.
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:12 (fifteen years ago)
Gobekli Tepe and Jericho and such are really fascinating.
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:14 (fifteen years ago)
xpost Jimmy, Shut the front door, that is amazing!Can you go in there?
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:14 (fifteen years ago)
Yes, I'm sure it's amazing, but it's not a RUIN, it's an abandonned building. Not the same thing at all, and out of the remit of this thread. Pls don't ruin (ha) my beautiful ruin thread.
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:15 (fifteen years ago)
There was a cool video story on Vice mag's website about Detroit, touring this rundown old theater that was massive inside... I can't think of the name
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:16 (fifteen years ago)
Oops. Sorry.
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:17 (fifteen years ago)
We could have some of Heinrich Schliemann's Troy, mind you...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1431/565852078_aeb2a6de49.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:17 (fifteen years ago)
And Jericho's walls...
http://www.howardbloom.net/jericho_wall_color2.jpg
http://www.howardbloom.net/jericho_walls_b&w.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:18 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/9915/wm/pd71831.jpg
Great Zimbabwe
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:20 (fifteen years ago)
Has anyone posted Petra yet?
http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/13735/_dsc3273-petra-web.jpg
― Wheal Dream, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:21 (fifteen years ago)
the castle that sprung my family line, mayhaps? this is all my grandmother could surmise after extensive research. Turner painted it at some point.
http://www.enchantedtowy.co.uk/Dynevor-Castle-1.gif
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:22 (fifteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3597/3579570074_3904150827.jpg
Ctesiphon
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:23 (fifteen years ago)
http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/classics/history/bronze_age/full/17-10.jpg
Akrotiri, Santorini
― Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. (Michael White), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:33 (fifteen years ago)
The southern borderlands here between England & Wales (where the river Wye is the natural border) contain some utterly remarkable ruins. The comprehensive societal smash of the 11th century is felt all over in this landscape, as nothing says 'we welcome our new religious & cultural overlords' like a fuck-off massive castle, followed by a fuck-off massive abbey, built with carboniferous limestone from the fuck-off massive cliffs. This is the ruined church of St James, built by monks & still used as a place of Christian worship until 1860 or so, despite it's remote & tricky position at a loop in the river at the bottom of the cliffs. http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Monmouthshire/Lancaut/LancautImages/LancautStJames2004.jpghttp://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/Monmouthshire/Lancaut/LancautImages/LancautStJamesWest2004.jpg
There's also a shelf of rock poking out of the river Severn here which has a ruined arch, an early Christain site dedicated to St Twrog and occupied by at least two hermits who received alms in the 1200's. http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/54/56/545622_fd8906a2.jpg
― boss margins, Monday, 15 November 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7391/11286325465_9fd40605f1_b.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7422/11286664176_cf8fe6a321_b.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5182/5610097837_6e1dd527ec_b.jpg
vijayanagara, first photo is elephant stables
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:06 (twelve years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Mohenjodaro_Sindh.jpeg
mohenjo-daro, pakistan
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tjZKErifi1Y/UAJ3zPCrmoI/AAAAAAAAMao/fh13xh3gU9o/s1600/013.JPG
bishop's palace, wells, england
http://www.evansadventuresafaris.com/gallery/zanzibar_ruins02.jpg
zanzibar
― ogmor, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:10 (twelve years ago)
OMG I want elephant stables now.
― Branwell Bell, Monday, 7 April 2014 20:30 (twelve years ago)
The manure-removal bills alone would ruin one.
― già, ya, déjà, ja, yeah, whatever... (Michael White), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:37 (twelve years ago)
I thought this was a gollum thread like "It ruins us - it RUINS us!"
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 7 April 2014 20:40 (twelve years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/LaasqorayRuins09.JPG/800px-LaasqorayRuins09.JPG
las khorey, somalia
― ogmor, Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:46 (twelve years ago)
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ghalib/018/graphics/afghandesertruins.jpg
https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6198/6052617126_7cab383510_z.jpg
afghanistan
― ogmor, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:56 (eleven years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Peru_-_Trekking_from_Urubamba_019_-_Incan_ruins_(8149153489).jpg
the andes
― ogmor, Saturday, 24 January 2015 19:51 (eleven years ago)
http://www.ancient-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/83742062.4BfR9mqL.Pohnpei0501179eo.jpg
http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/thumbs/site_1503_0005-750-0-20160616154241.jpg
http://survincity.com/wp-content/uploads/images_4/nan-madol.jpg
http://www.ancient-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/83742065.5db77U2R.Pohnpei0501185eo.jpg
nan madol, micronesia
― ogmor, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:23 (nine years ago)
http://www.beevar.com/upload/b/f0/bf0cbaf655c83a9a.jpg
http://whenonearth.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/kolmanskop-namibia-ghost-town-woe1.jpg
kolmanskop, namibia
https://erasingborders.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/img_2927.jpg?w=604&h=453
tamtoc, mexico
http://www.bulgariansun.eu/images/preslav1.jpg
preslav, bulgaria
― ogmor, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 12:35 (nine years ago)
old photos of old ruins takes it over the top...
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/5634/32225563.96/0_abaad_845b3b2b_orig
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QW1PU8eLkxk/UUMlJBK0M-I/AAAAAAACgxA/uGXxh_GiWak/s640/Photographs+of+Old+Delhi+from+The+19th+Century+(24).jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eu5CdSz7n20/UUMlFea2juI/AAAAAAACgwA/YpLfdtjKayc/s640/Photographs+of+Old+Delhi+from+The+19th+Century+(16).jpg
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9328/97833783.526/0_be61b_2d2e30d3_XXXL.jpg
delhi
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 16:55 (nine years ago)
I agree with marcos that pre-Columbian Americas definitely bring the ruination mojo.
I very much liked Uxmal, in the Yucatan, particularly the may the Magician's Pyramid comes up out of the trees like O HAI THERE
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9Qd3xWCJFeQ/maxresdefault.jpg
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:12 (nine years ago)
is that the one in star wars?
― ogmor, Wednesday, 21 December 2016 17:58 (nine years ago)
No, apparently that was Tikal (learned this just now from, ugh, Wookieepedia)
― troops in djibouti (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 20:17 (nine years ago)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Panglao_watchtower%2C_Bohol.png
very taken with this filipino watch tower
― ogmor, Monday, 9 September 2019 15:25 (six years ago)
al-waqfa 'ala al-atlal
― pomenitul, Monday, 9 September 2019 15:27 (six years ago)