• The Ruin (Ukrainian history)
  The Ruin (Ukrainian history)
  The Ruin is a period of Ukrainian history from the death of hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky in 1657 and until ascension of hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1687. This period is characterised by continuous strife, civil war, and foreign intervention of Ukraine's neighbours...
  
  , a period in Ukrainian history after the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in 1657
• Ruin (publishing house)
  Ruin (publishing house)
  Ruin is a Swedish publishing house, well-known for high quality books, mostly translations from various languages. It was established in 1996 by Harald Hultqvist, Nils Håkanson, Carl Ehrenkrona, Jon Smedsaas and Staffan Vahlquist...
  
  , a Swedish publishing house and magazine
• Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins
  Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins
  Real World Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins is the eighteenth season of the MTV reality television game show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge, and follows The Duel 2. The Ruins took place in Phuket, Thailand, with former cast members from MTV's The Real World and Road Rules competing along with...
  
  , season 18 of the MTV reality game show
• Ruin (video game), an upcoming computer game

Fiction

• "The Ruin
  The Ruin
  "The Ruin" is an 8th-century Old English poem from the Exeter Book by an unknown author. The Exeter Book is a large book of mostly Christian verse, which contains about one-third of the extant Old English poems...
  
  ", 8th century Anglo-Saxon poem
• Ruin (comics), a.k.a. Professor Hamilton, a DC supervillain in Superman comics
• Ruins (comics)
  Ruins (comics)
  Ruins is a two-issue comic book mini-series, written by Warren Ellis with painted artwork by Terese Nielsen, her husband Cliff Nielsen, and Chris Moeller, who took over for the last seventeen pages of the second issue....
  
  , a 1995 comic book published by Marvel, written by Warren Ellis
• The Ruins (novel), a 2006 horror novel set in the Yucatan, by Scott Smith
• The Ruins (film)
  The Ruins (film)
  The Ruins is a 2008 Australian-American horror film directed by Carter Smith and starring Jonathan Tucker, Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Laura Ramsey and Joe Anderson. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Scott Smith, who also wrote the screenplay...
  
  , a 2008 horror film based on the novel
• Ruins, a 1967 independent film by Clarke Mackey
  Clarke Mackey
  Clarke Mackey is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, author and educator. His 1971 feature film The Only Thing You Know is considered a key film in the early period of Canadian cinema....
  
  

Music

• Ruins (Japanese band), a Japanese drum-bass duo
• Ruins (metal band)
  Ruins (metal band)
  Ruins is a black metal band based in Hobart, Tasmania. The band was formed somewhere between 2000 and 2002 by Alex Pope, and Dave Haley .-Recording:Ruins began as a...
  
  , a black metal band based in Hobart, Tasmania
• Ruin (album)
  Ruin (album)
  Ruin is the second album by the metalcore band Architects and the first to feature current vocalist Sam Carter.Stylistically, this album displays a minor change in the band's style, with the mathcore sound on Nightmares being replaced with a more fluid metalcore sound, with more simple song...
  
  , a 2007 album by Brighton metal band Architects
• Ruins (Artefact album), 2008
• Ruins (Dread Zeppelin album)
  Ruins (Dread Zeppelin album)
  Ruins is a Dread Zeppelin album featuring B-sides, alternate mixes and previously unreleased tracks. It was originally released exclusively to members of the Dread Zeppelin fan club in 1996, before being made available to the general public later that year....
  
  , 1996