Ruins are the remains of man-made architecture.

Ruins or ruin may refer to:

• The Ruin (Ukrainian history), a period in Ukrainian history after the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1657
• Ruin (publishing house), a Swedish publishing house and magazine
• Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins, season 18 of the MTV reality game show
• Ruin (video game), a computer game from SCE and Idol Minds cancelled mid-development
• Ruin, Iran, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Ruin Rural District, an administrative subdivision of North Khorasan Province, Iran
• The Ruins, an old mansion owned by Don Mariano Lacson located in Talisay City, Negros Occidental in the Philippines, which is now a popular known modern tourist attraction

Fiction[edit]

• "The Ruin", 8th century Anglo-Saxon poem
• Ruin (comics), a.k.a. Professor Hamilton, a DC supervillain in Superman comics
• Ruins (comics), a 1995 comic book published by Marvel, written by Warren Ellis
• The Ruins (novel), a 2006 horror novel set in the Yucatán, by Scott Smith
• The Ruins (film), a 2008 horror film based on the novel
• Ruins, a 1967 independent film by Clarke Mackey

Music[edit]

• Ruins (Japanese band), a Japanese drum-bass duo
• Ruins (Australian band), a black metal band based in Hobart, Tasmania
• Ruin (album), a 2007 album by Brighton metal band Architects
• Ruins (Artefact album), 2008
• Ruins (Dread Zeppelin album), 1996
• Ruins (Grouper album), 2014

See also[edit]

• Runes, letters of the Runic alphabets