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Forgotten ruins France · Ardèche

Château de Crussol

A 12th-century castle ruin on a limestone spur 200 m above the Rhône, opposite Valence, with a walled ghost village inside its outer wall and a view down the valley to the Alps.

Coordinates: 44°55′58″N 4°51′05″E
Crowds: Quiet
Landscape: River valley
Best season: Best in Shoulder

Forgotten ruins Greece · Chios

Anavatos

A deserted Byzantine village stacked on a cliff in the hills of Chios, emptied after the 1822 massacre and never resettled, its stone houses now indistinguishable from the rock.

Coordinates: 38°25′60″N 25°58′60″E
Crowds: Usually empty
Landscape: Mountain
Best season: Best in Spring

Battle of Ruapekapeka, 1845–46 New Zealand engagement between British and Ngāpuhi

Forgotten ruins New Zealand · Northland

Ruapekapeka Pā

The earthworks of the Māori fortress that ended the Northern War in 1846, a hilltop of trenches, rifle pits and palisade lines whose design anticipated trench warfare by seventy years.

Coordinates: 35°25′60″S 174°11′60″E
Crowds: Usually empty
Landscape: Forest
Best season: Best in Summer