In roughly 20 trips she has taken passengers to places like the Gowanus Canal, the islands of Jamaica Bay and the burned-out ruins of the Greenpoint Terminal Market.

Mostly, he frowned, especially when he saw the burned-out ruins of what he recalled had been a large factor's warehouse.

Mr. Szpilman, now 86, spent the war hiding in the burned-out ruins of Warsaw, scavenging for food and shelter.

The intensity of misbegotten guilt that Datura strove to foster would keep this tortured spirit chained to these burned-out ruins, to this bleak plot of land, for another decade, or century.

He pursed his lips and tightly clenched his jaw when he came upon a picture of a wrecked locomotive in the burned-out ruins of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad depot.

Thus the sight of the burned-out ruins of the old palace in the morning mist was in every way a relief.

There were no burned-out ruins in Andor, but villagers eyed the swollen sun nervously and farmers tried not to look at fields that had produced no fall crops.

It stank of death and corruption and burned-out ruins.

There were pictures of the burned-out ruins of Chekhov's cottage in Istra and others of the desecration of the Tchaikovsky residence.

He put his arm around her, and they stood together next to the burned-out ruins of the church.