there's beauty in destruction

Overgrown room with windows

Tree in the Ta Prohm temple

Swim in the sandfall.

The Egyptian deity Horus as a Roman emperor. The figure bears the falcon-head of Horus, topped by the characteristic double crown (pschent) of Egyptian pharaohs, but also wears Roman armor (specifically lorica squamata, consisting of metal scales sewn to a fabric backing) with a small gorgoneion. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE. Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons /

Fountain in Beit ed-Dine, Lebanon

A house with a private bathhouse , complete with hot, warm and cold rooms, and a plunge pool.

In a room were found the skeletons of a woman of about 40 years and a man of about 20 as well a pair of gold and natural pearl earrings.

The wonderful Pompeian red on the walls

Frescoes, various valuable objects, and gold coins.

Pompeii Parco Archeologico

byzantine mosaic

The next time someone asks me why I want to leave this city/state/country I’m just going to show them this.

limonite mud and stalactites

"Let's deal the shackles of our lives a breaking blow"

St Andrew’s Cathedral (Scotland)