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The Barbegal Aqueduct and Mills are a Roman watermill complex in France, dating to the 2nd century AD and notable as the largest known concentration of mechanical power in antiquity.
Herculaneum Archaeological Park preserves a Roman town buried by Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, with unusually intact houses, wood, and frescoes.
Leptis Magna is a Roman city site in Libya, expanded under Emperor Septimius Severus and famed for its forum, basilica, and theater.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico preserves major Ancestral Puebloan great houses and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
Great Zimbabwe is a medieval stone city in southeastern Zimbabwe, noted for its dry-stone walls and its role as a Shona kingdom capital.
Rock of Cashel is a medieval fortress and ecclesiastical complex in County Tipperary, Ireland, noted for its 12th-century Cormac's Chapel.
Ostia Antica is the archaeological site of ancient Rome's port city at the Tiber mouth, preserving streets, baths, warehouses, and mosaics.
Established in 1794 in County Cork, Ireland, the Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills was a major industrial facility that utilized water power to manufacture gunpowder.
St Andrew's Cathedral is Glasgow's Roman Catholic cathedral, designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed on the Clyde in 1816.
La-Mulana 2 is a 2018 metroidvania developed by NIGORO, continuing the franchise's tradition of brutal exploration and intricate ruins-based puzzle solving.
The Carthage Ruins mark the site of the Phoenician and Roman city near Tunis, a UNESCO site tied to Hannibal and the Punic Wars.
Casa Grande Ruins in Arizona preserves a Hohokam caliche structure and was made the United States' first prehistoric reserve in 1892.
Stari Bar Fortress is a ruined medieval citadel near Bar, Montenegro, notable for its layered Byzantine, Venetian, and Ottoman remains.
