http://www.howardlyon.com
Mostly character/animal/thing studies, but some nice architecture in "Paintings" at least. Some good links too (eg http://imphead.com/ ). 

Detinets in Novgorod - been there, just not in winter time

Saviour on Blood cathedral has impressive exterior and interior (too detailed for my taste tho)
http://www.areyou.net/photo/Earth/xhome/piter99/spas-big.jpg
interior is very map-able
http://photo.korsakov.ru/data/media/1/CRW_0016.jpg

google for more, or come to St.Petersburg to see it :) 

Beautifull paints ! And it will be difficult to reproduce the paints in a texture file IMHO... 

I was meaning just the arch style 

I understood, while I think the most interesting things there are the paints... Anyway, good photos ;) 

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/subterranean-bunker-cities.html 

bland lighting, ugly textuers, poor detailing

is it for competitive CS? 

Still kinda neatish though. 

Of the recently-launched Venus Express.
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31141&farchive_objecttypeid=18&farchive_objectid=30912
Nice mechanical stuff. 

www.kogler.net/ 

-starts over- 

i just got the http://img167.echo.cx/img167/5929/goatlake6ss.jpg joke. 

www.kogler.net

omg it's like real world Cranky Steve :o 

too bad.
Now part of the world is forever ruined for you. Like the beauty of v838 monocerotis. :(
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/02/index.html 

has probably been posted sometime before but apart from the posing people it seems like it's time for a holiday in kambodja!

http://www.danciprari.com/images/worldtrip/cambodia/ca-siem-ta-prohn-5-kristen-600.jpg

http://www.unc.edu/~knesnow/BlogImages/Angkor%20Wat%202.jpg

http://www.bmi2.bmt.tue.nl/image-analysis/People/BRomeny/images/Bart%20@%20To%20Prohm%20Temple%20-%20Angkor%20PC130874%20-%20800%20x%20600.jpg

http://www.potterfam.com/MasaJay/archives/The_Bayon_ubiquitous_face.sized%5B1%5D.jpg

http://www.22000milesplusloin.com/site/article.php3?id_article=32

http://www.rseghers.name/Cambodia_Thailand_2004/pics/033%20Inside%20Angkor%20Wat.jpg

http://www.neolog.com/images/pics/travel/Mutt%20Ang%20face.jpg

http://www.neolog.com/images/pics/travel/Angkor%20Wat%20Muttley.jpg 

a picture of angkor wat that looks bad or even average. 

Hehe, cool - I've got pics of Angkor plastered all over my office atm >:} 

I'll be fairly close in chiang mai in northern thailand for about three months from january... 

If you have the patience to go through them all, I applaud you. Else just click random links:

http://www.clubdesmonstres.com

Some good shtuff. 

A french website about horror movies and its monsters ! Good link ! 

I visited the museum of modern art in Helsinki, Kiasma, today. Most of the stuff sucked badly and a lot of it was just.. ugly. But some rare ones were good.
There was also a room where artists had done 3d paintings but the tech was kinda primitive... i hope something comes of this in a few years (even though the tech has been there for many years).

Audience could look with polarized glasses and in one of the glasses there were these two balls which where the reference according to which the projected image moved.

In another exhibit, there was a simple metal wireframe village with a church in the center. It didn't look much special at first look, but actually it was put on a circulating platform and light was projected through it at a wall. Damn, it looked just like a computer game with the wireframe picture on the wall. :P 

http://www.autodestruct.com/concept.htm 

maybe they at least planned to have water? 

NDAs become searing hot pins in my skull when I'm around you lot. 

There is a water material definition sitting in fluids.guide. It seems to be your fancy HL2-style fresnel/fog/two normalmaps/reflection and refraction water, too.

Why they dropped that, who knows.