One of the most important religious sites in Athens was the Temple of Athena, known today as the Parthenon, which stood atop the Acropolis, where its evocative ruins still stand.

Royal Caribbean Cruises offers a fine jaunt to its extensive and evocative ruins, which include the Temple of Apollo.

A path through the garden behind the Aswan Museum leads to the evocative ruins of ancient Abu.

Painted several times by JMW Turner, Dunstanburgh Castle (nationaltrust.org.uk) on a stretch of Northumbrian coastline is one an evocative medieval ruins.

There's nothing up here but ruins - Richelieu having destroyed the last functioning stronghold - but what evocative ruins!

I prefer churches as evocative ruins, covered with creepers and surrounded by toppled grave stones.

"Photographer-author Douglas Kent Hall takes us to the most celebrated churches as well as to the most obscure, including hauntingly evocative ruins in remote parts of New Mexico."

Seek out the evocative sugar-mill ruins of the New River and Hamilton Estates, and the St Thomas Anglican and Cottle churches.

Your first stop is the evocative ruins of the famous villa built by Emperor Hadrian (Villa Adriana in Italian).

The convent of Las Capuchinas, which houses the offices of the architects and archaeologists restoring the city, has perhaps the most evocative ruins.