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I was planning to make a big celebratory post for the 100th spot on my wowmap… but turns out I totally missed the moment - there are already 121!
It all started about three years ago, when I wanted to take a weekend trip to another city but couldn’t decide where to go. There were things that interested me in both plac...
In 1985, Parc de la Villette unveiled the world's first permanent 180-degree cinema as part of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (Science and Industry Museum). During screenings of its inaugural film featuring Earth views from space, the immersion proved so intense that audiences reported experiencing vertigo. Th
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Euphoria Retreat - not about wow-architecture from the outside. It's a spa where even the treatment names sound like something you've never heard before. They took the classics, added local, historical, monastic vibes - and created a place where the body gets healed and the mind just… switches off.
At its core - a 19t...
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Kotor: The Venetian Fortress
Venice wasn't just canals - it was a trading empire. To protect its ships, it built fortresses along the Adriatic. Kotor is one of them.
Others came before: Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines, Slavs. But earthquakes erased most of that. What stands today is largely Venetian.
Walls climb from ...
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one of the most magical places, both in France and on earth in general
I may have just discovered one of my favorite places on earth, Le Mont-Saint-Michel, in Normandy, France and also the one where the party @pauline-unik has mentioned could take place!!!
When I first saw it, the feelings it evoked in me were similar to the ones a great song or a piece of art can, ones that cannot be d
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Mystras. The Last Breath of Byzantium.
This isn't ruins - it's preserved time. A ghost town on the slopes of Taygetos. 200 years ago, its inhabitants left for new Sparta, leaving behind an untouched Byzantine world of the 15th century.
Monasteries and churches still echo with the spirit of Hagia Sophia. But the real ...
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What would a bar in the "Alien" universe look like?
Pretty much like Giger's bar in the Swiss town of Gruyères. It actually exists.
The artist who won an Oscar for the visual style of that cult film was an architect by training. People like that are a handful in the film industry. And it's even rarer when one of the...
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Zhangjiajie 🤯 😍
Tucked away in the mountains of China, Zhangjiajie feels absolutely otherworldly - no surprise James Cameron chose it as the visual muse for Pandora in Avatar.
Scattered across the landscape are cozy boutique hotels with insane views. The designers here get it: nature is the main character. They br...
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This is the site plan of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. At the top is the Parthenon of the Acropolis, while below lies the museum itself with a floor dedicated entirely to the temple. The dimensions, layout, and orientation of this hall replicate the temple exactly, creating an ideal stone shadow of the Parthenon to h...
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I lived without a piano for half a year after moving, and yesterday my digital instrument was finally delivered. I can't be dragged away from it for two days now.
P.S. Sorry if it hurts someone to see sheet music in such a state. As a child, I would draw on any paper I could reach
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