Be prepared to be impressed - Churches in the Faroe Islands.
This page drew my attention to these islands, and then I searched out the page with the churches. The Faroes are closer to Scotland and Norway, but they belong to Denmark.
Some lovely photos of St Petersburg, Russia. Click on the words "Full Size," to the right of the photo, to see the gorgeous high-resolution versions --
Chandelier, in the interior of the Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul
Resurrection Cathedral (Note: do not miss the high-res version of this!)
A 360-degree panorama of the Chateau Chenonceau in France.
Alexey Sergeev, a chemist at Tulane University, has posted his archive of more than 11,000 photos from over 500 rolls of film. He has, moreover, supplied a search engine that makes a number of rewarding searches possible.
It enabled me to find, for example, these 1,420 pictures of Russian churches.
You can also try much narrower subjects, for example, fresco or mosaic.
This photo of several windmills in Holland is very appealing, no? It's by Corry DeLaan, of Munich, Germany. Note that you can change the background to the photo by clicking on one of the grayscale-squares in the upper left corner of the Photoblink screen.
Many more of Mr. DeLaan's photos appear at FotoCommunity. One that I especially liked is called Morning Idyll.
Now here is one fine-looking building -- the Chateau de Chambord, 1519-1547, by Domenico da Cortona, at Chambord, France.
These five additional photographs show it off from different angles and viewpoints.
If you've been needing a break from winter doldrums, take a walk through Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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