40 Poignant Photos That Are Especially Fascinating
Nathan Johnson
Published
06/16/2020
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Fascinating photos of our fascinating world. Take a break from the day and let us show you some beautiful and interesting things you wouldn't otherwise experience.
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“Windows XP Bliss today.” -
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“The Statue of Liberty in Paris in 1886 before oxidation (colorized photo)” -
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“Inuit “sunglasses”, although not made of glass, pre-date the Chinese invention – going back to prehistoric times and were probably very useful against sun glare.” -
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“Auto Aerobics by Chris Labrooy.” -
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“Vantablack is one of the darkest substances known, absorbing up to 99.965% of visible light.” -
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“Vantablack BMW.” -
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“This beach in Palawan, Philippines.” -
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“These overgrown statues in an abandoned Japanese park.” -
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“This is an extremely rare atmospheric phenomenon called rainbow bridge.” -
10.
“Photo is of an Indian cobra: Sandip Choudhary.” -
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“Petrified wood containing turquoise opal found in Queensland, Australia.” -
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“Opalized tooth of a theropod found in Australia. One of the rarest and most valuable dinosaur teeth in existence. This tooth is on display at the Australian museum.” -
13.
“Eschenheimer Turm, the oldest and most unaltered building in the foreground of Modern High Rises, Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. Erected, 15th century (1426-28)” -
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“Altocumulus clouds at 30,000ft.” -
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“Fish Temple, Ancient City, Phraeksa, Mueang District Samut Prakan, Thailand. Located in a Park that is an open air museum, where people can see full size replicas of the important buildings in Thailand.” -
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“The Milan Bosco skyscrapers in Italy.” -
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“Near fully stocked abandoned vending machine.” -
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“Teri Horton bought a secondhand painting for $5 and learned that it could be an original Jackson Pollock. She spent years trying to prove it’s authenticity, and was offered $9 million, but refused to sell for any less than $50 million. She died last year, and the painting remains in storage.” -
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“Agassiz Tulip Festival, British Columbia – Canada.” -
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“The Cerastes cerastes, or Saharan horned viper is one of the only snakes with horns!” -
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“Glass frog, the top is lime green, while the abdominal skin of some members of this family is transparent and translucent.” -
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“Stegosaurus dinosaur at the ancient Khmer temple of Ta Prohm, part of the Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia.” -
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“The Oldest Tree in the World | California's White Mountain range nicknamed Methuselah, is over 4,700 years old.” -
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“French soldiers, battle of Somme 1916. Colourised by Memento.” -
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“A huge lion sculpture carved from a single dead redwood tree.” -
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“A sun halo seen above Puerto Escondido, Mexico.” -
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“A plaster cast of an ant nest.” -
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“AMAZING blue glaucus (aka Blue dragon of the sea)” -
30.
“The Kenguru electric car is a car designed for wheelchair users.” -
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“Volcano eruption in Chile.” -
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“Tutankhamun had a dagger made from a meteorite.” -
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“The inside of the Statue of Liberty is a simple spiral staircase.” -
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“SpaceX launch seen visible from West Palm Beach.” -
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“Lightning struck the sidewalk outside my house and created this pattern and tuned the sidewalk concrete into chunks of glass.” -
36.
A tree holding up stones from a collapsed wall.” -
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“A turtle that travels on top of a jellyfish.” -
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“In the summer of 2007, this gold-encrusted sword that once belonged to Napoleon was auctioned off in France for more than $6.4 million dollars.” -
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“This hotel in Austria- Aqua Dome.” -
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“10,000 year old cave paintings in Santa Cruz, Argentina.”
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