Ivy-covered buildings, soft light streaming through broken windows... Though time seems frozen in these quiet places, the decay all around quietly marks its passage. There's a haunting, dreamlike charm to these abandoned locations, beautiful and bittersweet, brought vividly to life in carefully crafted illustrations.

Explore forgotten worlds with this collection of illustrations featuring ruins.

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Throughout human history, many great civilizations have risen and fallen, sometimes leaving behind nothing more than the ruins of their once mighty empires. From the Colosseum in Rome, the pyramids of the Egyptian and Aztec empires, and the Great Wall of China, all these places and more serve as timestamps of the people who once built and used them. What sort of remnants of ours do you think will be discovered centuries from now?

Kirby looks on in astonishment at the scene before him in Kirby and the Forgotten Land.

Have any of the illustrations of abandoned ruins below hit a little close to home?

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