>> Actually, if you like crazy geometry, you could do worse than to wonder
>> around the inside of a Gothic cathedral...
> 
> Some cathedrals sure are spectacular piles of stone. I walked up one of the
> towers on Cologne cathedral a couple of years ago - I can't believe people used
> to do it without all the extra safety-oriented metalwork recent construction
> engineers have put in. It was like mountaineering!

Cathedrals used to occasionally collapse back then too. ;-)

Some of these places I stand there and stare at the intricate geometry 
and wonder how the hell people *thought* of this stuff. Then again, if 
you spend 300 years building one structure, involving a team of hundreds 
of people, I guess you have time to think these things through. (Still, 
if *I* did this, the building would end up as a mess of cool parts that 
don't actually fit together properly...)

And then there's the stone carvings. Don't get me started on the stone 
carvings...

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