What is the most awe inspiring architecture that you have ever seen up close and personal?

it has to be the Clinton Library, not very inspiring but it just looks stupid on the outside

Either Stonehenge or the Empire State Building. (Didn't get to America until after 2001..)

I don't know if you'd call it architecture, but the cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde near Cortez, Colorado are pretty awesome.

Edinburgh Castle

Oh beautiful.

i am from egypt and i love Pyramids and Sphinx too much

I would love to go there.

Allstate Arena^ (It's my home away from home.)

Notre Dame cathedral in Paris France. History, man! History!

My father built a shed in the back-yard about 5 years ago. It's still standing, surprisingly.

Great addition to the long list of man made structures . I can relate ...

For me it's one of these.


(I went to the very top!)

when iam naked and look down,,,,lmao,,have a great day.

indianapolis motors speedway tower terrace

Our Grand Canyon.

Who was the architect?

Poseidon

GOD was the architect...

yep our arizona is da bomb, I live in northern

St. Louis Arch

Disney world

Man made, it would be St Peters in Rome...Both awesome and frightening.
Natural architecture, Islands being formed.. This is Hawaii..

Frightening is right . Did you pick up on why it does NOT put off the feeling of the Holy Spirit' present ?

If you look over where the walls meet the floors ( and tourism hasn't worn it off ) busy staring at the ceiling , you can still see the blood stains of the persecuted Christians deep in the marble floors , cause they took the marble out of the Coloseum and installed it in the Vatican . Very creepy ...

I am a recovering Catholic, I know that sounds creepy too.. Its certainly not a loss of belief or faith but just a loss of the organization. I spent my school years in a Catholic school.
I felt very uncomfortable there at St Peters, I didn't know about why I just felt it.
My great grandmother, she would now be about 130 to 140 year's old now, once had an experience at St Peters.. Being very Catholic she missed mass one morning from illness, she was punished for this absence. her penance was to crawl the length of the square and up the stairs, her nose touching the ground as she crawled. it is a very long distance and she was not well. I felt that when I stood there.
She then had to kiss the feet of the statue of Saint Peter. She was truly devout, as was my grandmother before this incident.
Whether the blood be visible or not, you can feel it everywhere. its lovely architecture with a sad past.

What do you mean by recovering ? You do NOT have to answer on this public
format , Just click onto my name and when ya see the envelope icon (for private messaging ) , we'll go back and forth on the private format provided .

One thing is for sure , it is hard sometimes for people to be able to detect when
the Holy Spirit is trying to get someone away from something .

Just like it is hard for people to differentiate between the feeling they get in their chest when they've been insulted / offended , and when it is really" heart conviction" which is a good thing ,cause although it will cause the same or similiar feeling in our chest , it is better to know that there is something that we have to work on , rather than to think everything is OK while walking straight into the Lake of Fire . I am appalled by what the clergy did to your relative ,especially a woman .

It would be bad enough if the person was a man that actually did something
reprehensible and was directly connected to the priesthood and needed to be
punished , but for a simple member , in good standing and female - I rest easy knowing that judgement starts at the pulpit .

little mark

Dang! Beautiful

Luray Caverns...

pictures don't do it justice, you have to go if you have never been!

After 30 miles of hiking, we finally arrive.

I was there in '99 and hiked the Inca trail. what an amazing place! Getting there was the most fun of all.

I must agree. The hike was just amazing but oddly I found going down more tiring with my pack than going up. I proposed on top of what they called the "Nipple" or Warmiwanusca-Dead-Woman's Pass @ about 14,000 above sea level. She said yes. It brings back so many good memories. I think we went in July 2003. When we got to Machu Picchu, It was the beginning of the winter solstice. We got there about 4am to watch the sun cast the shadow over this indicator. Totally cool!

the space needle in Seattle

Up close and personal?

Something you have seen with your own eyes. :o)

This is Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, AR. It was designed by Fay Jones, who apprenticed under Frank Lloyd Wright.

I used to work across the street form the World Trade Center. Ate lunch in the plaza with the weird globe a hundred times. On a nice night the lines to get up to the Obsevation Deck for $7.50 were long. If I had and out of town guest in we'd snicker to ourselves as we went up to Windows On The Word restaurant and get a 5 dollar beer. No lines, cold beer. It meant way more than that to me though. Never forget.