RUIN

Archaeological site, perhaps

• Road to ___ (1978 Ramones album)

• Wrack partner

• Angkor Wat, for one

• Archaeological site

• Archaeologist's site

• Archaeology sight

• Archaeology venue, at times

• Archeologist's treasure

• Archeologists dig it!

• Bane

• Bankrupt

• Bankruptcy, perhaps

• Be the end of

• Blow

• Bollix up

• Botch

• Break, financially

• Bring crashing down

• Bring down

• Bring to naught

• Cause (or effect!) of tourism?

• Cause to fail

• Completely bollix

• Completely botch

• Completely destroy

• Crush

• Damage beyond repair

• Damage irreparably

• Decayed building

• Defeat.

• Demolish

• Destroy

• Destroy completely

• Destroy financially

• Destroyed building

• Destroyed Lamb of God jam?

• Destruction

• Devastate

• Devastation

• Dig site

• Dig this place?

• Dilapidation

• Downfall

• End of a certain road

• Excavation site

• Fall

• Give the ending away

• Go to rack and ___

• Havoc

• I enter run but end up a wreck (4)

• Impoverish

• Lay to waste

• Lay waste

• Lay waste to

• Leave destitute

• Machu Picchu, for one

• Make a mess of

• Make a pauper of

• Make a shambles of

• Make a wreck of

• Make unusable

• Make useless

• Mesa Verde attraction

• Mess up

• Nemesis

• Nemesis' goal

• Once-great city, perhaps

• Partner of rack

• Pauperize

• Perdition

• Place of archaeological interest

• Pompeii, e.g.

• Pompeii, e.g., today

• Rack partner

• Ravage

• Really mess up

• Reduce to bankruptcy

• Relic of a monument

• Remains to be seen?

• Render unusable

• Render useless

• Roman attraction

• Sabotage

• Schliemann site, often

• Screw up

• Shambles

• Smash up

• Spoil

• State of destruction

• Take all the fun out of

• Tear down

• The Parthenon, e.g.

• The road to ___

• The Roman Colosseum, e.g.

• Torpedo

• Total

• Total destruction

• Totally botch

• Totally destroy

• Totally mess up

• Totally trash

• Totally wreck

• Trash totally

• Tumble-down place

• Tumbledown building

• Turn into something bad

• Undo

• Undo permanently

• Undoing

• Utter collapse

• Utterly destroy

• Uxmal sight

• Waist

• What a single does to a potential no-hitter

• Wrack

• Wreckage

• Wrecked condition

• You can dig this place?

• The state of being decayed or destroyed

• The process of becoming dilapidated

• An event that results in destruction

• Failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• Destruction achieved by wrecking something