51 Fascinating Photos and Intriguing Images From Around the World

Nathan Johnson Published 02/15/2023 in ftw

Our world is truly an incredible place, packed to the brim will all kinds of interesting and bizarre things. Mankind has a long and storied history on this planet and we are still discovering new amazing things even in the present day. So get comfy and check out this big batch of photos that just might broaden your horizons.

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1.
The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here's what 36 of them look like:
2.
"Inside view of the world’s largest pig farm/slaughterhouse in Hubei, China"
3.
"Ruja Ignatova took 4 billion dollars over a period of 16 months in a ponzi scam using her company OneCoin. She is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list and has arrest warrants from Europol and Interpol. FBI Reward is $100,000 for information leading to her capture"
4.
"A general guide for different kinds of AI."
5.
"Anti suicide trigger guards on Turkish military rifles"
6.
"This cool see-thru old Super Nintendo System."
7.
“A school of jellyfish congregated under this boat.”
8.
This is what the "American Candy" section looks like in a UK store:
9.
Australia is really, really big:
10.
Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:
11.
"The reflection of the lights gave my sunglasses googly eyes."
12.
“The way the ice forms on the fuel sign”
13.
This is what a "fresh cup" of banana juice looks like:
14.
The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
15.
This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:
16.
This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:
17.
“Got a perfect yin and yang from pouring sugar in my coffee.”
18.
This is what a pistachio looks like before it's harvested and becomes the delicious nut we know and love:
19.
Cooling towers have an open bottom:
20.
“My puppy has 2 different colored eyes, blue and brown. When I take a picture with the flash, they glow in 2 different colors.”
21.
“The overhead lights of this Burger King are in the shape of a burger.”
22.
“I was at the beach and found a shell with barnacles on it that make it look like an anatomically correct heart.”
23.
"This black toilet paper in a fancy hotel."
24.
"The perfect gaming setup for racing doesn't exis...."
25.
"Saw a guy doing some cool realistic graffiti."
26.
"Pig Farm in China"
27.
This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:
28.
"The Osiria rose is both red and white."
29.
"New Gym Policy"
30.
"A heavily battle-scarred Great White Shark that was spotted near the Neptune Islands, South Australia, 2022."
31.
"In Japan, they put a barcode in the meat package that darkens when the meat spoils, reacting to ammonia. When it darkens, the barcode is unreadable."
32.
"The differences between primate feet"
33.
"The true list of KFC’s “11 herbs and spices,” leaked by Colonel Sanders’ own nephew in 2016. The list was jotted down on the back of the will for Claudia Sanders, the late wife of the Colonel. Colonel Sanders himself once claimed that the ingredients “stand on everybody’s shelf”."
34.
"Many radiation sources have this unusual warning printed or engraved on them"
35.
"Toyota 2000GT – Production 1967–1970 (351 produced), have sold at auction for as much as US$1,200,000. ($580,000 Avg. Value)"
36.
This, from 1896, is what one of Pablo Picasso's first-ever self-portraits looks like:
37.
And this, from 1972, is what one of Picasso's last self-portraits looks like:
38.
This photo is one of only two photos in existence of the US Supreme Court in session:The court has never allowed cameras. In 1937, photographer Erich Salomon pretended that his arm was broken and put the camera inside a sling he wore into the court and snapped this pic.
39.
This is how big a wolf's paw print is compared with a human hand:
40.
Curved escalators exist:
41.
You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...
42.
Well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:
43.
This isn't a circle — it's a 1 million–sided polygon called a megagon:According to Naked Geometry, "even if drawn at the size of the Earth, a regular megagon would be very difficult to distinguish from a circle."
44.
This is what the Rosetta stone looks like from the front...
45.
And this is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:
46.
This is Herman the Cat, a cat who was given the title of expert mouser aboard a US Coast Guard ship during World War II:
47.
American Froot Loops and Canadian Froot Loops are totally different colors:
48.
This is what skin punctured by a needle looks like:
49.
Highway signs are way bigger than your tiny little brain thought they were:
50.
This is what a stack of $1,000 worth of uncirculated $1 bills looks like next to a stack of $1,000 worth of used $1 bills:
51.
In 1939, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler pleading with him not to go to war:
52.
This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:
53.
This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:
54.
This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:
55.
The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:
56.
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57.
This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:
58.
In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a "lunatic asylum":
59.
Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:
60.
“A cat behind a hanging monster statue”
61.
And finally, this is what a mass of DNA looks like:

1.
The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here's what 36 of them look like:
2.
"Inside view of the world’s largest pig farm/slaughterhouse in Hubei, China"
3.
"Ruja Ignatova took 4 billion dollars over a period of 16 months in a ponzi scam using her company OneCoin. She is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list and has arrest warrants from Europol and Interpol. FBI Reward is $100,000 for information leading to her capture"
4.
"A general guide for different kinds of AI."
5.
"Anti suicide trigger guards on Turkish military rifles"
6.
"This cool see-thru old Super Nintendo System."
7.
“A school of jellyfish congregated under this boat.”
8.
This is what the "American Candy" section looks like in a UK store:
9.
Australia is really, really big:
10.
Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:
11.
"The reflection of the lights gave my sunglasses googly eyes."
12.
“The way the ice forms on the fuel sign”
13.
This is what a "fresh cup" of banana juice looks like:
14.
The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:
15.
This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:
16.
This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:
17.
“Got a perfect yin and yang from pouring sugar in my coffee.”
18.
This is what a pistachio looks like before it's harvested and becomes the delicious nut we know and love:
19.
Cooling towers have an open bottom:
20.
“My puppy has 2 different colored eyes, blue and brown. When I take a picture with the flash, they glow in 2 different colors.”
21.
“The overhead lights of this Burger King are in the shape of a burger.”
22.
“I was at the beach and found a shell with barnacles on it that make it look like an anatomically correct heart.”
23.
"This black toilet paper in a fancy hotel."
24.
"The perfect gaming setup for racing doesn't exis...."
25.
"Saw a guy doing some cool realistic graffiti."
26.
"Pig Farm in China"
27.
This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:
28.
"The Osiria rose is both red and white."
29.
"New Gym Policy"
30.
"A heavily battle-scarred Great White Shark that was spotted near the Neptune Islands, South Australia, 2022."
31.
"In Japan, they put a barcode in the meat package that darkens when the meat spoils, reacting to ammonia. When it darkens, the barcode is unreadable."
32.
"The differences between primate feet"
33.
"The true list of KFC’s “11 herbs and spices,” leaked by Colonel Sanders’ own nephew in 2016. The list was jotted down on the back of the will for Claudia Sanders, the late wife of the Colonel. Colonel Sanders himself once claimed that the ingredients “stand on everybody’s shelf”."
34.
"Many radiation sources have this unusual warning printed or engraved on them"
35.
"Toyota 2000GT – Production 1967–1970 (351 produced), have sold at auction for as much as US$1,200,000. ($580,000 Avg. Value)"
36.
This, from 1896, is what one of Pablo Picasso's first-ever self-portraits looks like:
37.
And this, from 1972, is what one of Picasso's last self-portraits looks like:
38.
This photo is one of only two photos in existence of the US Supreme Court in session:The court has never allowed cameras. In 1937, photographer Erich Salomon pretended that his arm was broken and put the camera inside a sling he wore into the court and snapped this pic.
39.
This is how big a wolf's paw print is compared with a human hand:
40.
Curved escalators exist:
41.
You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...
42.
Well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:
43.
This isn't a circle — it's a 1 million–sided polygon called a megagon:According to Naked Geometry, "even if drawn at the size of the Earth, a regular megagon would be very difficult to distinguish from a circle."
44.
This is what the Rosetta stone looks like from the front...
45.
And this is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:
46.
This is Herman the Cat, a cat who was given the title of expert mouser aboard a US Coast Guard ship during World War II:
47.
American Froot Loops and Canadian Froot Loops are totally different colors:
48.
This is what skin punctured by a needle looks like:
49.
Highway signs are way bigger than your tiny little brain thought they were:
50.
This is what a stack of $1,000 worth of uncirculated $1 bills looks like next to a stack of $1,000 worth of used $1 bills:
51.
In 1939, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler pleading with him not to go to war:
52.
This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:
53.
This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:
54.
This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:
55.
The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:
56.
.
57.
This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:
58.
In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a "lunatic asylum":
59.
Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:
60.
“A cat behind a hanging monster statue”
61.
And finally, this is what a mass of DNA looks like:

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1. The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here's what 36 of them look like:

2. "Inside view of the world’s largest pig farm/slaughterhouse in Hubei, China"

3. "Ruja Ignatova took 4 billion dollars over a period of 16 months in a ponzi scam using her company OneCoin. She is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list and has arrest warrants from Europol and Interpol. FBI Reward is $100,000 for information leading to her capture"

4. "A general guide for different kinds of AI."

5. "Anti suicide trigger guards on Turkish military rifles"

6. "This cool see-thru old Super Nintendo System."

7. “A school of jellyfish congregated under this boat.”

8. This is what the "American Candy" section looks like in a UK store:

9. Australia is really, really big:

10. Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:

11. "The reflection of the lights gave my sunglasses googly eyes."

12. “The way the ice forms on the fuel sign”

13. This is what a "fresh cup" of banana juice looks like:

14. The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:

15. This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:

16. This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:

17. “Got a perfect yin and yang from pouring sugar in my coffee.”

18. This is what a pistachio looks like before it's harvested and becomes the delicious nut we know and love:

19. Cooling towers have an open bottom:

20. “My puppy has 2 different colored eyes, blue and brown. When I take a picture with the flash, they glow in 2 different colors.”

21. “The overhead lights of this Burger King are in the shape of a burger.”

22. “I was at the beach and found a shell with barnacles on it that make it look like an anatomically correct heart.”

23. "This black toilet paper in a fancy hotel."

24. "The perfect gaming setup for racing doesn't exis...."

25. "Saw a guy doing some cool realistic graffiti."

26. "Pig Farm in China"

27. This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:

28. "The Osiria rose is both red and white."

29. "New Gym Policy"

30. "A heavily battle-scarred Great White Shark that was spotted near the Neptune Islands, South Australia, 2022."

31. "In Japan, they put a barcode in the meat package that darkens when the meat spoils, reacting to ammonia. When it darkens, the barcode is unreadable."

32. "The differences between primate feet"

34. "Many radiation sources have this unusual warning printed or engraved on them"

35. "Toyota 2000GT – Production 1967–1970 (351 produced), have sold at auction for as much as US$1,200,000. ($580,000 Avg. Value)"

36. This, from 1896, is what one of Pablo Picasso's first-ever self-portraits looks like:

37. And this, from 1972, is what one of Picasso's last self-portraits looks like:

38. This photo is one of only two photos in existence of the US Supreme Court in session:The court has never allowed cameras. In 1937, photographer Erich Salomon pretended that his arm was broken and put the camera inside a sling he wore into the court and snapped this pic.

39. This is how big a wolf's paw print is compared with a human hand:

40. Curved escalators exist:

41. You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...

42. Well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:

43. This isn't a circle — it's a 1 million–sided polygon called a megagon:According to Naked Geometry, "even if drawn at the size of the Earth, a regular megagon would be very difficult to distinguish from a circle."

44. This is what the Rosetta stone looks like from the front...

45. And this is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:

46. This is Herman the Cat, a cat who was given the title of expert mouser aboard a US Coast Guard ship during World War II:

47. American Froot Loops and Canadian Froot Loops are totally different colors:

48. This is what skin punctured by a needle looks like:

49. Highway signs are way bigger than your tiny little brain thought they were:

50. This is what a stack of $1,000 worth of uncirculated $1 bills looks like next to a stack of $1,000 worth of used $1 bills:

51. In 1939, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler pleading with him not to go to war:

52. This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:

53. This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:

54. This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:

55. The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:

56. .

57. This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:

58. In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a "lunatic asylum":

59. Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:

60. “A cat behind a hanging monster statue”

61. And finally, this is what a mass of DNA looks like:

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1.
The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here's what 36 of them look like:

2.
"Inside view of the world’s largest pig farm/slaughterhouse in Hubei, China"

3.
"Ruja Ignatova took 4 billion dollars over a period of 16 months in a ponzi scam using her company OneCoin. She is on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list and has arrest warrants from Europol and Interpol. FBI Reward is $100,000 for information leading to her capture"

4.
"A general guide for different kinds of AI."

5.
"Anti suicide trigger guards on Turkish military rifles"

6.
"This cool see-thru old Super Nintendo System."

7.
“A school of jellyfish congregated under this boat.”

8.
This is what the "American Candy" section looks like in a UK store:

9.
Australia is really, really big:

10.
Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:

11.
"The reflection of the lights gave my sunglasses googly eyes."

12.
“The way the ice forms on the fuel sign”

13.
This is what a "fresh cup" of banana juice looks like:

14.
The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:

15.
This is the size of a flag flown on a Spanish ship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905:

16.
This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:

17.
“Got a perfect yin and yang from pouring sugar in my coffee.”

18.
This is what a pistachio looks like before it's harvested and becomes the delicious nut we know and love:

19.
Cooling towers have an open bottom:

20.
“My puppy has 2 different colored eyes, blue and brown. When I take a picture with the flash, they glow in 2 different colors.”

21.
“The overhead lights of this Burger King are in the shape of a burger.”

22.
“I was at the beach and found a shell with barnacles on it that make it look like an anatomically correct heart.”

23.
"This black toilet paper in a fancy hotel."

24.
"The perfect gaming setup for racing doesn't exis...."

25.
"Saw a guy doing some cool realistic graffiti."

26.
"Pig Farm in China"

27.
This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:

28.
"The Osiria rose is both red and white."

29.
"New Gym Policy"

30.
"A heavily battle-scarred Great White Shark that was spotted near the Neptune Islands, South Australia, 2022."

31.
"In Japan, they put a barcode in the meat package that darkens when the meat spoils, reacting to ammonia. When it darkens, the barcode is unreadable."

32.
"The differences between primate feet"

34.
"Many radiation sources have this unusual warning printed or engraved on them"

35.
"Toyota 2000GT – Production 1967–1970 (351 produced), have sold at auction for as much as US$1,200,000. ($580,000 Avg. Value)"

36.
This, from 1896, is what one of Pablo Picasso's first-ever self-portraits looks like:

37.
And this, from 1972, is what one of Picasso's last self-portraits looks like:

38.
This photo is one of only two photos in existence of the US Supreme Court in session:The court has never allowed cameras. In 1937, photographer Erich Salomon pretended that his arm was broken and put the camera inside a sling he wore into the court and snapped this pic.

39.
This is how big a wolf's paw print is compared with a human hand:

40.
Curved escalators exist:

41.
You're probably familiar with the "Face on Mars," an image of a formation on Mars from the 1970s that launched a million conspiracy theories...

42.
Well, this is what a much less blurry, much more recent photograph of that same "face" looks like:

43.
This isn't a circle — it's a 1 million–sided polygon called a megagon:According to Naked Geometry, "even if drawn at the size of the Earth, a regular megagon would be very difficult to distinguish from a circle."

44.
This is what the Rosetta stone looks like from the front...

45.
And this is what the back of the Rosetta stone looks like:

46.
This is Herman the Cat, a cat who was given the title of expert mouser aboard a US Coast Guard ship during World War II:

47.
American Froot Loops and Canadian Froot Loops are totally different colors:

48.
This is what skin punctured by a needle looks like:

49.
Highway signs are way bigger than your tiny little brain thought they were:

50.
This is what a stack of $1,000 worth of uncirculated $1 bills looks like next to a stack of $1,000 worth of used $1 bills:

51.
In 1939, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler pleading with him not to go to war:

52.
This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:

53.
This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:

54.
This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:

55.
The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:

56.
.

57.
This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:

58.
In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a "lunatic asylum":

59.
Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:

60.
“A cat behind a hanging monster statue”

61.
And finally, this is what a mass of DNA looks like: