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Ruins are the remains of man-made architecture.

Ruins or ruin may refer to:

History

• The Ruin (Ukrainian history), a period in Ukrainian history after the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1657

Geography

• Ruin, Iran, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Ruin Rural District, an administrative subdivision of North Khorasan Province, Iran
• The Ruins (mansion), A historic mansion an iconic Philippine tourist attraction in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Ruins, a 1967 independent film by Clarke Mackey
• Ruins (film), a 2004 Slovenian film
• The Ruins (film), a 2008 horror film based on the 2006 novel of the same name

Television

• "Ruin" (Gotham), an episode of Gotham
• Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins, 18th season of The Challenge
• "The Ruins", an episode of Voltron: Legendary Defender

Literature

• Ruins (Card novel), a 2012 novel from the Pathfinder series by Orson Scott Card
• Ruins (Brooks-Dalton novel), a 2026 speculative fiction novel by Lily Brooks-Dalton
• Ruins, a 2014 novel by Dan Wells in the Partials Sequence series
• "The Ruin", an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon poem
• "The Ruin (Dafydd ap Gwilym poem)", a 14th-century Welsh poem
• The Ruins (novel), a 2006 horror novel set in the Yucatán, by Scott Smith

Music

Groups and labels

• Ruin (American band), an American thrash metal band
• Ruins (Australian band), an Australian black metal band
• Ruins (Japanese band), a Japanese drum-bass duo
• Ruin (punk band), an American punk band

Albums

• Ruin (album), a 2007 album by British metal band Architects
• Ruins (Dread Zeppelin album), 1996
• Ruins (Grouper album), 2014
• Ruins, a 2016 album by British psychedelic rock band Wolf People
• Ruins (First Aid Kit album), 2018

Songs

• "Ruins" (instrumental), by Henry Cow
• "Ruins", a song by English folk rock, singer-songwriter Cat Stevens
• "Ruins", a song by Australian singer Gabriella Cilmi
• "Ruins", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale by Toby Fox
• "Ruin", a song by Shawn Mendes from Illuminate
• "Ruin", a song by Squarepusher from Music Is Rotted One Note

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Ruin (video game), a video game from SCE and Idol Minds cancelled mid-development
• Ruin, a.k.a. Professor Hamilton, a DC supervillain in Superman comics
• Ruins (comics), a 1995 comic book published by Marvel, written by Warren Ellis
• Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins, season 18 of the MTV reality TV game show
• Ruin, an expansion for the video game Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

See also

• Runes, letters of the Runic alphabets