OK, the Golden Stuff one didn't take off like some of the earlier ones, but still got some good pics. Trying something maybe a little broader. Old ruins, abandoned places, leftover bits of flotsam and jetsam of the past you've encountered on your travels. Interpret that as broadly as you need to.
As always, posting a couple to get started -- and please do mention where the pic was taken unless it is Bleeding Obvious.
Greek Temple, one of three in Paestum, south of Naples, from before the Romans swept across the peninsula and took over.
Iraqi anti-aircraft emplacement, bunker for crews and munitions in Kuwait.
>>1217733
Barbed wire from around the previous pic, with hopey-life affirming desert blossoms.
Strangler figs strangling Buddha at Ta Prohm temple, near Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Dinosaur trackway near Tuba City, AZ.
I found this arrowhead while hiking in Tennessee.
Pretty damned relicy.
That get's us started, what you got?
>>1217736
Pretty spoopy.
>>1217746
Where-at this?
Also, the old fort in Dubai, about the only old thing in the whole emirate.
>>1217896
Temple complex near Angkor Wat, maybe 20 mins on a tuk tuk through the jungle.
>>1217960
Totally missed that... now I gotta go back.
Ruins at Wupatki.
https://www.nps.gov/wupa/index.htm
>>1217737
Sauropod track way in Korea, shot out the bus window driving past the exposed rock face along the side of the highway. A friendly Korean guy told me they were coming up...
(Tracks are the reddish ovals running from lower right corner.)
Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness.
Burial cairns with rings of standing stones, Clava Cairns.
Sheep on Hadrian's Wall.
Some megalithic site.
Doune Castle in Scotland. Most of the various castle scenes in Monty Python and the Holy Grail were shot here. A lot of Winterfell in Game of Thrones as well.
When you enter through the gift shop, they have loaner coconut halves in case you want to gallop around like a valiant knight.
Dog in Pompeii, not the famous mosaic one nor the famous dead one. Just a regular old doggo.
>>1217732
Old Incan watch post on a mountain hike. Above the Old in can city of Ollantaytambo.
Western gate of the larger of two ancient Roman amphitheatres in Budapest, Hungary
This image is from google but it was one of the most beautiful places I have visited. The hike from the castle back to the town of Stonehaven (Scotland) was also wonderful.
Out in the backyard of an air and flight museum in NC, some old birds waiting their turn at restoration.
>>1219518
I correct myself: those have been restored.
Stone pickets surrounding the fortifications atDun Aenghus in the Aran Islands.
>>1219400
Lord of the Rings signal fiir-ish looking, ain't it?
Tumacacori Mission in extreme S. AZ
Abandoned in the mid 19th century, still unfinished
>>1219638
Any interior pics? That intrigues me.
>>1219666
It's basically bare inside, plaster hasn't been restored, not sure if there were ever any pews
>>1219689
The roof and front facade were rebuilt, and the dome is kept painted white like it would have been in the past.
This altar bit was restored some, cleaned up and the hole kinda repaired.
>>1219691
It's smaller inside than it looks, and dark everywhere but the altar area, so most of my pictures were from outside.
"Port Famine", it was the first attempt of establishing a spanish colony in the strait of Magellan, around 1584. People died of starvation, being found years later the by an english pirate, who named it like that.
The picture are the remains of village´s chapel.
The story is very interesting, including several misunfortunated events, like the only survivor -after 6 years living alone- died because the ship that rescued him sinked.
>>1219692
Thanks.
Top of the sun pyramid looking down on the moon pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico. I got up early to see the sunrise and get morning light on the pyramid, and ended up being the only one in the entire site.
>>1220108
Another pic from halfway down the sun pyramid
>>1220109
This one is taken from the moon pyramid
>>1220110
read comment and immediately thought Yavin4
The wreck of some colonial-era hotel west from Biso in Uganda
Petra, Jordan
>>1220360
Some old fort near Muscat, Oman
In Sardinia there are literally thousands of these stone towers which date back to an iron age civilization. You find them randomly in the woods wherever you go hiking. There used to be ten times as many but they were torn apart and used for stone walls.
>>1217738
Damn, nice find.
>>1220110
The scale of this complex blows my mind. Anyone who's ever tried to bury a cat knows how much work it is to move 3 cubic feet of earth. They musta had some mean-ass gods to go to all that trouble for them.
>>1220352
Nothing spooks me out more than colonial ruins in Africa. So much death, misery and malaria contained within those walls.
>>1218271
Holy shit, I'd never heard about this place. The "artists' depictions" of the full structure look like the fortified granaries you find in Morocco.
>>1220380
This photo is of the second oldest minaret in the world in Chinguetti.
>>1220380
I live by Wupatki, the national monuments here are a worthwhile visit, but the grand canyon gets all the attention.
>>1220434
Be fair -- you wouldn't want Grand Canyon's worth of people swarming the much smaller site at Wupatki.
Enjoyed your ruins, though.
>>1220434
This shows what an incredible asset local geology can be to a culture. All the shale they had access to gave the Pueblo an unlimited supply of natural brick, and clay for mortar.
Compare to >>1220373 . There might have been ten thousand of these things built, but using bowling ball-sized chunks of limestone, they couldn't get any more elaborate than cylindrical towers (though as a drystone mason I am in awe of these structures)
I love traveling up and down the UK and looking at how the design of stone walls changes with the geology. In Scotland they take extreme skill to build, as all they have to work with are round glacial chunks of granite.
Cf. the stone walls in Wales -- or even more impressive, Cornwall, where they had perfect slabs of slate to work with.
(Of course then there's the Incas, who just said "fuck you, I'mma build what I want.")
Castello di Biscina. its a 12th century castle centrally between Assisi, Perugia, Gubbio in Umbria, Italy. Its central location between regional powers meant it changed hands multiple times in its history. its been partially restored in 2007 (beyond the visible ruins) so is a partially safe ruin to explore.
not as old as some of these posts but a very cool find on my trip.
>>1220811
view from the other side.
The Fountain neighborhood in (London)Derry is slowly becoming depopulated as protestants choose to move across the river, or pass away. It's a sad, watchful and unsettling feeling, walking through a defiant but dying town
Burial Cairns in Sligo, Ireland.
>>1221804
Feckin' spooky
OP here, have enjoyed the pics, giving this opne fairwell bump in case anybody wants to share anything else before it fades away.
>>1219428
Damn that arch is pretty.
I'll contribute
Abandoned English sugar mill, Lamanai, Belize
more from Lamanai - Jaguar Temple
Some of the people I was with in the picture. Might give the temple a bit of perspective on its size
One more from Lamanai - The High Temple
Cemetery, Mizen Peninsula, Ireland
Wasn't too sure if that building covered in vines was a chapel or a mausoleum.
>>1217732
Heidelberg castle
>>1222650
Cool. Here's a coffee mill abandoned in Kenya. If somebody else has an abandoned cream mill, we're good to go.
Caerphilly Castle in Wales
Rahinnane on the Dingle Peninsula - Ireland. earth ring fort dating between 300ad-1000ad, with a 15th century stone fort built inside it.
>>1224396
Yo, dog, we heard you like forts...