Stunning Places

The Queen Victoria Building, is a late nineteenth-century building designed by the architect George McRae in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. [Source]

The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is the world's oldest shopping mall. Housed within a four-storey double arcade in central Milan, the Galleria is named after Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy. [Source]

This museum houses the world's most comprehensive collection of works by the renowned Spanish surrealist. In addition to housing six of the artist's masterworks, it includes oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and more than 1,000 graphics, plus posters, photos, sculptures, objets d'art, and a 5,000-volume library on Dalí and surrealism. There are free docent-led tours. [Source]

The artist is known for his trademark sculptures made out of wooden planks. His installations are built to provoke reaction and to intervene in the daily life of passersby confronted with his sculptures. Quinze sees his installations as places where people meet each other again and start conversations. [Source]

The capital and touristic centre of Santorini Island, Thira (also called Fira), is located high on the edge of the huge ancient volcano caldera rim. Over 850 m long stairs lead up the crater wall, 587 steps, from the old port of Skala Thira to the town. [Source]

Tulip Ice Cream is a blue ribbon winner in any garden display and an exotic-looking variety that you'll enjoy for many years. This bulb is unique and not readily found in markets. Plant in a high traffic area to enjoy as often as possible. Blooms late spring. [Source]

The house is described and depicted in many of the books and comics about the Moomins and Tove Jansson even drew blueprints of it as an illustration for Finn Family Moomintroll. When she built a model of the house in the 1970s, it was however not made round; this 2.5 metres tall model is now on display in the Moomin Museum in Tampere. [Source]

The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família , commonly known as the Sagrada Família, is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Though construction of Sagrada Família had commenced in 1882, Gaudí became involved in 1883, taking over the project and transforming it with his architectural and engineering style—combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. [Wiki]

The Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in Barcelona. The design of the Palau is typical of Catalan modernism in that curves predominate over straight lines, dynamic shapes are preferred over static forms, and rich decoration that emphasizes floral and other organic motifs is used extensively. In contrast to many other buildings built in the modernisme style, however, it must also be said that the design of the Palau is eminently rational. [Wiki]

The sacred architecture of the Baroque period had its beginnings in the Italian paradigm of the basilica with crossed dome and nave. One of the first Roman structures to break with the Mannerist conventions exemplified in the Gesù, was the church of Santa Susanna, designed by Carlo Maderno. The dynamic rhythm of columns and pilasters, central massing, and the protrusion and condensed central decoration add complexity to the structure. [Source]

Amazing rare colorful tornado view, Unusual tornado action. [Source]

Beautiful nature colorful flowers in a sunset view. Beauty at nature's best. [Source]

Beautiful colorful flower path. Simply mind blowing. [Source]

The architecture can be found in a vast area stretching from the Hindu Kush to eastern Anatolia and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf. The homeland of the Seljuk architecture was Turkmenistan and Iran, where the first permanent Seljuk buildings were built. Unfortunately the Mongol invasions and earthquakes destroyed most of these buildings and only a few remain. In 1063 Isfahan was established as capital of the Great Seljuk Empire under Alp Arslan. [Wiki]

It's also known as "Temple of the Emerald Buddha." Adjoining the Grand Palace, the temple is the greatest spectacle of Bangkok. There are over 100 brightly-colored buildings, all unique unto themselves. Built in 1782 during Rama I's reign, the Emerald Buddha, which gives it its name, is traced to India, centuries after Lord Buddha attained Nirvana and then had it enshrined in Bangkok. [Source]

The Château de Versailles, which has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage List for 30 years, is one of the most beautiful achievements of 18th-century French art. The site began as Louis XIII’s hunting lodge before his son Louis XIV transformed and expanded it, moving the court and government of France to Versailles in 1682. Each of the three French kings who lived there until the French Revolution added improvements to make it more beautiful. [Source]

The brick-red tegole almost act as a glue connecting all the masterpieces that make Florence's cityscape something in which to get lost. You'll see The Duomo stand out first, followed by The Campanile and The Baptistery. If you stare into the streets, you'll see impeccably dressed Italian mothers in the latest designer clothing, running errands and chasing after their children who are playing in the piazzas. [Source]

There are as many pigeons as tourists in Piazza San Marco, maybe even more. We don't know what attracts them, maybe it's the beauty of The Basilica or the Campanile. Maybe it's the Doge's Palace or the two columns that pay homage to two of Venice's patrons St. Mark and St. Teodoro of Amasea. [Source]

Portofino is an Italian fishing village, and upmarket resort famous for its picturesque harbour and historical association with celebrity visitors. According to Pliny the Elder, Portofino was founded by the Romans and named Portus Delphini, or Port of the Dolphin, because of the large number of dolphins that inhabited the Tigullian Gulf. [Wiki]

This is not somewhere you go on a school trip or family vacation, you could, but that's not the point of Vegas or the Las Vegas Strip for that matter. The 4.2 mile stretch has been designated an All-American Road. All the major hotels, casinos and resorts are located here, along with some of the most dramatic symbols of modern architecture you can find today including its outstanding lights and high rises. [Source]