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Are there any UI's that you find incredible, either from an artistic or technological perspective, and what is it about them that captures your attention?
Also I remember being pretty blown away when Delphi came out.
While it doesn't replace Excel fully, you can use it and almost forget you're using a "webapp." The cells/columns look great, feel great, and they almost nail the desktop experience down to a tee.
It is actually a fairly old webapp, but I still haven't seen anything which made you forget that it was a webapp quite that well. Even GMail/Outlook.com still feel like webapps even with how good they both are design wise.
Old versions of Winamp were pretty great. Also I remember being pretty blown away when Delphi came out.
Truly great UIs aren't memorable - they just work and you don't even think about them. Elevators, gas ovens, hourglasses. If you can make a useful application with a UI as simple, intuitive and forgettable as any of those, you've succeeded.
Touchscreen-centric gadgets have appeared long before the iPhone came to the market, but the work Apple put in to the first iPhone's UI made touchscreens more useful than the traditional phone keypad interface for the first time.