In this song, the castles on the Saale are decaying ruins that serve only to inspire the imagination.

In other works, Smithson treated industrial scenes not as futuristic dystopias but as the decaying ruins of a lost civilization.

When they came to Earth, the Colonial Fleet found structures upon its surface similar to the ancient and decaying ruins found on Kobol.

Barr writes with hypnotic lyricism of these decaying ruins, where "Nature was taking back what had once been hers" by pushing green shoots up from the mold.

The site was purchased in 1927 by Sir William Lindsay Everard, preserving the decaying ruins from total destruction.

In olden times the river meadows had supported a series of farmsteads, which had disappeared leaving only the crumble of stone fences and a few decaying ruins.

The town contains numerous historic wooden structures, some restored in recent years, as well decaying ruins from its mining heyday.

Just some decaying ruins.

Although there have been various proposals to redevelop the Lincoln Beach site, the decaying ruins of the park have remained vacant for decades.

He had the parish church built and replaced the decaying ruins of the castle with an ornate palace.