Places or Buildings that blew your mind.

Another one for Sydney Opera House here as well as the Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre. Love Paris, but there's just something about Montmartre that elevates it above anything else there.
Finally a big mention to Cologne cathedral. It's not only an epic building, but the fact it remained standing despite the city being bombed into near oblivion in WWII is amazing.
 
dooderooni said:
Another one for Sydney Opera House here as well as the Basilica of Sacré Coeur de Montmartre. Love Paris, but there's just something about Montmartre that elevates it above anything else there.
Finally a big mention to Cologne cathedral. It's not only an epic building, but the fact it remained standing despite the city being bombed into near oblivion in WWII is amazing.
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I was literally about to post about those three things, came on the thread and this is the last post, spooky!

I was drunk when I first saw that cathedral in Cologne but my mind was absolutely blown. I came out of the station and just kept looking up and up and up, it was mad.
 
Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Isfahan, Iran. Makes other great squares (Red, Saint Mark's, Tiananmen, Trafalgar etc) look dull and characterless. Surrounded by palaces and mosques, blue tilework everywhere, and, in the evening, when families come to picnic around the central pools, it becomes even more enchanting.
 
atypical_boro said:
I was literally about to post about those three things, came on the thread and this is the last post, spooky!

I was drunk when I first saw that cathedral in Cologne but my mind was absolutely blown. I came out of the station and just kept looking up and up and up, it was mad.
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Spooky indeed 😁
 
Pantheon for its dome and aura
Colisium for its size and scale
Auswitz for its sadness and reflection on what humans can be
Glencoe pass driving from Edinburgh to Fort William
Whitby for fish and chips
 
Lijiang, Tiger Leaping Gorge and Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. I'll probably never go back but waking up in the mountains in a tea hut with views across the eastern most Himalayas is something I'll never ever forget
 
without question I’d have to say the Roman ruins in Libya. I’ve been to both Leptis Magna and Sabratha and sat in wonder at the sheer size, beauty and complexity of the ruins — which are still well preserved. If you have the chance to visit you should.
 
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without question I’d have to say the Roman ruins in Libya. I’ve been to both Leptis Magna and Sabratha and sat in wonder at the sheer size, beauty and complexity of the ruins — which are still well preserved. If you have the chance to visit you should.
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Never got there... Close, so close...
 
Tutankhamun's Tomb at Luxor

We were the only people inside, no guides, no security.

They move his mummified remain between the museum in Cairo and the tomb. He happened to be in when we visited.

It was just me, the wife, daughter and Tut. Very cosy.
 
I was lucky enough to travel right across Turkey, following the old trade routes, for National Geographic. A fair few places blew my mind on that trip and I still go back and re-watch to remind myself how utterly amazing those places were.

Buildings:
Gobekle Tepe. Standing in amongst the massive limestone T shaped pillars and realising that they formed a complex, two story building and they were built 12,000 years ago by neolithic people. Totally mind blowing. When Stone Henge was built, Gobekle Tepe was already twice as old as Stone Henge is now.

Aya Sophia, Istanbul. Just the sheer scale of the place. It was, for centuries, the biggest building on the planet. Just awe inspiring.

Places:
Mount Nemrut summit, tomb and sculptures
Mardin old town.
Ancient ruins of Ani
Goreme and surrounding landscape
Antakya .... weird mocern 5 star hotel with a roman city street and square in the basement
Stratonicea ... Roman ruins that have not yet been reconstructed.... just acres of architectural features, some just littering people's gardens.
 
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The 4 horses of. St Mark not the copies outside. But inside upstairs. The originals stolen after the sacking and looting of Constantinople in 1204. Bronze beauties.

If you drive over the San Francisco bridge to the Sausalito side, and turn off left just after the bridge you can get up the hills overlooking the the bay. You can get high enough to able to look down on the bridge, with amazing views of the bay and the city.
Four of took a few 6 packs up there. Then we went for a trip round the bay in a helicopter.
Great day.
 
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