Doesn’t this just look like the perfect retreat for some mad Russian aristocrat? Turns out, it is! Or was, rather.

Built near the Black Sea, a region so beloved by the old Russian upper class that they called it the “Russian Riviera,” this princely mansion was confiscated after the Soviets took over. During their rule, the house served as a summer residence for the Muscovite elite, very much as it had in the old days, one might say. Not everything changed under the Communist regime.

Read more at English Russia.

Here are two Hollywood legends together in one picture: Shirley Temple (1928) and Guy Madison (1922-1996), in what is probably a publicity shot for their 1947 film Honeymoon....

Just another beautiful picture for you today, artwork by one “alphabethater,” posted here. Inspiration from The Polar Express (2004) perhaps?

Islamabad is one of the few planned cities in the world that actually turned out okay. (Unfortunately the same cannot exactly be said for Pakistan anymore.) The Faisal Mosque depicted here is one of the building that defines the Islamabad skyline and for some time, it was even the largest mosque in the world....