On a visit to Angkor Wat in Cambodia we had a full two days of temple visiting. One in our party declared at the end of it, that he'd had enough of looking at "a bunch of old rubble".
I suppose you either enjoy these things, or you don't. Personally I do, and I'm missing seeing beautiful neoclassical ruins, such as those depicted by Francesco Piranesi: various Roman capitals compared with Greek examples, from Julien-David Le Roy's "Les Ruines des Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece" (1758): probably Plate 17 of "Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de' Romani" (1761), (2) conjoined leaves, engraved by Francesco Piranesi, 22" x 57.75" (sheet).
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