Philippines is home to many ancestral houses and historical ruins of mansions built during the Spanish period: There’s the famous Vigan's “heritage city”, Iloilo's heritage buildings, Silay's ancestral houses, the “Taj Majal of Negros” known as The Ruins in Talisay City, and the list goes on. Unknown to many, there’s another historical ruins of a mansion found in Ormoc City, Leyte.

Situated in Albay, Cagsawa Ruins is a historical landmark that serves as the centerpiece of the Cagsawa Ruins Park where tourists can enjoy the scenic view of Mayon Volcano. The ruins also stood as an image of Bicol region’s magnificent landscape for almost two centuries. It symbolizes Bicol’s rich history together with the strength and flexibility of the people towards calamities and ravages of Mother Nature.

Ruins of Songsong is a ghost barangay which is a cluster of roofless shells of old stone houses abandoned after a tsunami/tidal wave hit the seaside town of Batan Island in the 1950s.

A curious attraction that can be found in the province of Negros Occidental: the remains of a burnt-out mansion from long ago. The mansion dates back to the 1900s when it was built by the sugar baron, Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson, for his first wife, Maria Braga, a Portuguese from Macau whom he met in his vacations in Hong Kong.

Imagine this scenario - an imposing structure in the middle of a vast sugar cane plantation abandoned for more than 70 years.

Camiguin is blessed with both natural and historical riches. Its attractions never fail to disappoint. It is definitely one of the stops any adventurer should make. Old Catarman Church Ruins and Cross Marker and Sunken Cemetery are two of the town’s proudest attractions, the landmarks bridging the past to the present.