Have you ever wondered what makes us love glorified sites that now sit in ruins? Why, for instance, does the desolate town of Hampi receive eight lakh tourists from around the world, year after year?

A sculpture of French writer Victor Hugo at Beijing's Old Summer Palace, also called Yuanmingyuan. [Photo provided to China Daily] When Frenchman Remi Launay, 29, visited Beijing's Yuanmingyuan ...

The Etemenanki Ziggurat, often associated with the Tower of Babel, was discovered by German archaeologist Robert Koldewey in 1899 near Hillah, in modern-day Iraq. Many scholars believe the Tower of ...

The discovery of the previously undocumented ruins was made during drainage work at the estate, which is now owned and managed by the National Trust. One theory is that they were utilitarian ...