Stopdesign.com -- a beautiful site. I knew I'd enjoy reading as soon as I stumbled across it, and then I ran into this collection of sites:
http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/css/vault/
It's 144 astonishing sites, a great resource for budding designers or anyone looking for some ideas.
I'd also highly recommend poking around Stopdesign. The portfolio section is probably my favorite portfolio I've ever seen, and he offers a free set of templates for a photo gallery. (You might even see those templates here, one of these days!)