These are some of the places I look to drool over eye candy and have a shot at re-creating it.
http://abduzeedo.com – graphics, typography, and illustrations. Fabio Sasso, a brazilian designer, has put together his designs and work of another dozen contributors to create a blog with fresh daily content and instructive tutorials for creating compelling visual awesomeness.
http://www.colourlovers.com – a color and design blog. Great for browsing for web themes; colors are a huge part of design.
http://richditch.wordpress.com – absolutely stunning photography. Though less of a nature photographer than the author, I appreciate how he details his thought process and his approach to photographs in his posts. He is also a Nikon shooter like myself, and usually lists the gear he used for each shot.
Other sites
http://www.designvitality.com/blog
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
http://www.bittbox.com