The world is an intriguing place. However, our mundane everyday lives sometimes make us forget that. To remind you about the interesting things around us, We has compiled a collection of rarely seen pictures, and they should definitely catch you off-guard. But in a totally good way.
From a grain of sand magnified 300 times to a butterfly that’s half male, half female, we included both the common and the rare. This way, you’ll be able to rediscover the ordinary and expand your world view.
Continue scrolling for your daily dose of awe, upvote your favorite entries and don’t forget to leave a comment under the ones that surprised you the most. Also, if your thirst for eye-opening images is bigger than this post, check out We’s earlier lists of 50 Times People Found The Most Unexpected Thingsand 73 Rare Photos Reveal The Unseen Side Of Things, And It Will Change The Way You See The World.
#1 The Local Nursing Home Is An Indoor Town. There’s A Movie Theater And Pub
This place is called “Doverwood Village”. It’s a skilled nursing facility located in Hamilton, OH. Senior residents receive 24-hour medical care while also getting the rehabilitation care they need, which can include range of motion exercises, gait and balance training and individualized exercise programs. The movie theater shows movies 2x each day. An old one and a new one.
#2 This Is What Some Grains Of Sand Look Like When Magnified 100 To 300 Times
Gary Greenberg introduces himself as a scientist, author, teacher and photographer who combines his passion for art and science by exploring the hidden dimensions of nature. “The secrets of nature are visible everywhere. Yet, they remain secrets until they are revealed,” he wrote on his website.”The miracles of nature are tangible, and they can be seen directly through the microscope. The magnificence of nature lies in its consciousness. When we commune with nature, we become conscious of our connection with the universe.”
And he knows what he’s talking about. Greenberg invented the high-definition 3D lenses that he takes his pictures on, resulting in 18 U.S. patents under his name. He was a photographer and filmmaker until age 33 when he moved from LA to London and earned a Ph. D. in biomedical research. This has given him a unique appreciation for biological and scientific curiosities and for the optical macro photography technologies he would need to document them.
The sand composition can vary drastically depending on where it’s from, but this grain is from a beach in Hawaii, where Dr. Greenberg is located.
#3 This Purely Golden Bee Landed On My Car Today
This bee is most likely a Cordovans honey bee. It has a color mutation that inhibits black
#4 Saw A Snail Today While I Was Outside And Its Shell Is Crystal Clear
#5 Rocks On The Lake Baikal
Rocks on the lake Baikal get heated from the sunlight every now and then and melt the ice beneath. After the sun is gone, the ice turns solid again thus creating a small stand for the rock above. It is called the Baikal Dzen.
#6 This Cat I Met Today Has Sauron’s Eyes
#7 My Friend’s Blind Cat Soren Has Amazing Eyes
#8 This Is A Music Typewriter: How Music Was Typed Before Computers
Marketed in the 1950s, it sold for about $255 (about $2,415 in today’s money). Keaton was trying to create something that would print characters precisely on staff and indicate exactly where the next character would be printed to ensure accuracy, and ended up with a circular keyboard which gives the typewriter its distinct look.
#9 This Little Transparent Guy Landed On Me In The Ecuadorian Amazon
#10 Sun Through A UV Lens
A suite of NASA’s sun-gazing spacecraft have spotted an unusual series of eruptions in which a series of fast puffs forced the slow ejection of a massive burst of solar material from the sun’s atmosphere. “Looking at the corona in extreme ultraviolet light we see the source of the puffs is a series of energetic jets and related flares,” saidNathalia Alzate, a solar scientist at the University of Aberystwyth in Wales. “The jets are localized, catastrophic releases of energy that spew material out from the sun into space. These rapid changes in the magnetic field cause flares, which release a huge amount of energy in a very short time in the form of super-heated plasma, high-energy radiation and radio bursts.”
#11 Blue Bees Exist (Blue Carpenter Bee)
#12 Tulips Blooming In The Snow
#13 This Sea Slug, Which Looks Like A Leaf, Can Go Without Eating For 9 Months, Because It Can Photosynthesize Just Like A Plant While Basking In The Sun
#14 A Curly-Haired Horse
The exact origin of the Bashkir Curly Horse is one of the greatest mysteries of the horse world. Horses with curly coats are most certainly an ancient breed. They have been depicted in art and statuary in early China as far back as 161 AD. There has been evidence of their presence in South America and Europe. There is evidence that Curlies have been in North America since the early 1800’s.
#15 My Neighbor’s House Encased In Ice After The Recent Blizzard In Ohio (On Shore Of Lake Erie)
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#16 Assisted Living Facility Made To Look Like A Small 1940s American Town
#17 140 Million Year Old, 500 Kg Dinosaur Femur Discovered In France
#18 This Shower Formed Naturally Inside A Cave
#19 This Butterfly Is A Bilateral Gynandromorph, Literally Half Male, Half Female
A gynandromorph is an organism that contains both male and female characteristics. But this butterfly is a bilateral gynandromorph, which means one half is completely female and the other half is completely male. The cause of this phenomenon is typically, but not always, an event in mitosisduring early development. While the organism contains only a few cells, one of the dividing cells does not split its sex chromosomes typically. This leads to one of the two cells having sex chromosomes that cause male development and the other cell having chromosomes that cause female development. For example, an XY cell undergoing mitosis duplicates its chromosomes, becoming XXYY. Usually this cell would divide into two XY cells, but in rare occasions the cell may divide into an X cell and an XYY cell. If this happens early in development, then a large portion of the cells are X and a large portion are XYY. Since X and XYY dictate different sexes, the organism has tissue that is female and tissue that is male.
#20 Nasa’s Photo Of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. Many landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story that scientists have only just begun to decode. The image resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers).
#21 I Found A Very Small Frog
#22 This Is What A “Split Lobster” Looks Like. This Coloring Occurs Once In Every 50 Million Lobsters
This split-colored lobster displays a condition known as gynandromorphy, meaning it is half male, half female. In this case, the blue side is the female side, and the brown side is the male side.
#23 Time Lapse Photo Of A Beehive
#24 Transparent Fish
Experts believe it could be a Salpa maggiore (Salpa maxima), commonly found in the Southern Ocean. Salps tend to roam the upper layers of the ocean where sunlight can still penetrate. They move by straining water through their gelatinous bodies, feeding on phytoplankton and other small bits of organic matter. The ghostly appearance is believed to be a form of camouflage for the otherwise defenseless creature.
#25 This Blue Jay Still Has Half Of Its Baby Feathers
#26 My Friend’s Giant Sunflower
#27 Me And My Girlfriend Were Walking In The Woods The Other Week And Saw A Rainbow Pool For The First Time
#28 A Clutch Of Dinosaur Eggs In A Friend’s Personal Collection. As A Dinosaur Fanatic, This Blows Me Away
#29 Fin Whale Vertebrae Beneath The Water Near Kongsfjorden, Norway
#30 A Purple Grasshopper Found In My Garden
#31 This Bicolor Sunflower I Grew
#32 Saw An Albino Buck Near My Daughter’s Daycare
#33 The Blue Java Banana, Which Is Said To Have The Same Consistency As Ice Cream And A Similar Flavor To Vanilla
#34 Customer Came In And Let Me Take A Picture Of Her Hands That Had 6 Fingers On Each
#35 Ex-World Champion Cyclist Janez Brajkovic Leg After A Race
#36 Valonia Ventricosa, The Largest Single-Celled Organism On Earth. Yep, This Is A Single Living Cell
#37 Translucent Blue Tang
#38 Cannabis Field In The Middle Of A Cornfield
#39 One Of The Oldest Rocks In Existence, The Murchison Meteorite. It’s 4,600,000,000 Years Old, And Likely Existed Before The Earth Itself Had Completely Formed
Interestingly, it also contains amino acids, the chemical building blocks of DNA.
#40 This Funky Little Ribbon Cloud Outside My Plane Window
#41 Those Ain’t Trees
Positive streamers (which are positively charged ionic channels) rise up from the ground. When one of them meets a negatively charged step leader, it results in a lightning strike.
#42 There Are Caves In Mexico With Crystals As Big As Trees, But You Can’t Explore The Caves For Too Long Due To Heat And The Toxic Atmosphere. But I Mean Look At Those Things
#43 What Appears To Be A Pile Of Broken Glass Is Actually A Frozen Lake Michigan
#44 This Mutated Daisy
#45 A Boy Born Weighing 268 Grams (9.45 Oz) Was Sent Home Healthy After Months In The Neonatal Care Unit In Tokyo. He’s The Smallest Child To Ever Be Born And Survive
#46 Ant Face Under Electron Microscope
#47 Jupiter Viewed From Its South Pole
#48 You Can See Where My Nails Stopped And Started Growing Again Between Chemo Cycles
#49 Dinosaur Footprints In France
#50 Australian Fire Breaks In Action
#51 Long Exposure Of A Firework Taking Off
#52 Albino Peacock In My Miami Neighborhood
#53 Spotted This Wrought-Iron VW Beetle
#54 Supercell In Wyoming, USA
#55 The Wool Of An Australian Merino Sheep
#56 One Of My Mother’s Chickens Laid An Egg And Tied It With A Bow
#57 A Salt Crystal I Found At Salar De Uyuni
#58 A Blonde Squirrel On My Old Mail Rout
#59 We Decided To Break Tradition At Our Southern Wedding
#60 Albino Plant
Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare. The reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. So if you see a big plant that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighbouring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis. Albino plants are basically vampires.
#61 How A Zoo Feeds Their Baby Hornbills
#62 Pickle Under Ultraviolet Light
#63 This Super-Cautious Crab Scoping Me Out
#64 The 4.5 Billion Year Old Fukang Meteorite
#65 A Very Rare Blue Eyed Box Turtle
#66 Starfish With 6, 5 And 4 Arms
#67 My Grandparents Clock Measures Time On A One Week Scale Instead Of A 12 Hour One
#68 This Purple Roly Poly I Found Today
#69 The Human Heart Stripped Of All Fat And Muscle, With Just The Coronary Arteries And Cardiac Veins Exposed
#70 Gaze Upon All Of Mercury For The First Time Ever
#71 The Baby Vest
#72 What The Roof Of Notre-Dame Currently Looks Like
#73 This Tulip Has A Leaf That Has Half Morphed Into A Petal
#74 One Of Four Heads Fashioned From Cotton, Soap And Human Hair Placed By Alcatraz Prisoners In Their Beds To Aid Their Escape In 1962
#75 This Chameleon Shedding His Skin Looks Like He Is Wearing Pajamas
#76 Whittier Is A City In The U.S. State Of Alaska. The Population Is Around 220 And They All Live In A Single Building
Whittier, Alaska, a town where nearly everyone lives in the same building. The fourteen-story high-rise—called Begich Towers, or BTI—contains a post office, a police station, a grocery store, a Laundromat, a health clinic, and a church. (There once was a combination video rental store and tanning salon, but it’s been closed for a while now.) Built by the US Army in the 1950s, BTI originally housed officers and their families, and though its concrete walls have since been given a cheerful paint job, the fortress-like, institutional feel remains.
#77 This Albino Ladybug That Landed On Me
#78 Freeze-Dried Dragonfruit Is One Of The Most Vibrant Natural Examples Of The Color Fuchsia
#79 There’s A 1 In 20,000 Chance Of An Albino Doe Giving Birth To An Albino Fawn. I Spotted Such A Pair On A Recent Camping Trip
#80 Nuclear Explosion Photographed Less Than One Millisecond After Detonation
#81 A Scorpion Turned Entirely Into Copper (Found In A Mine In Southern Arizona, US)
#82 An Extremely Rare Melanistic Serval
#83 Plant In Our Office Is 4 Stories Tall
#84 This Albino Reindeer I Saw While Travelling In Finnish Lapland
#85 This Teal Cicada I Saw
#86 This Picture I Took Of A Gecko’s Foot
#87 How An Overnight Freeze Squeezed Water Out Of The Ground And Froze It At One Of Our Job Sites
#88 This Is What The Bottom Of A Frog Stuck On A Glass Tank Wall Looks Like
#89 This Pink Grasshopper Found On Kelleys Island, Ohio
#90 Dog Dental Implant
#91 My Eye With Stitches After Full Thickness Cornea Transplant
#92 My Plane Flew Over An Offshore Wind Farm
#93 Maybe The Most Beautiful Soccer Stadium In The World? Henningsvaer, Norway
#94 My Friend Just Found The Smallest Yet (Functionally Still Valid) Banana Near Her Home In Uganda
#95 These Huge Blueberries I Found
#96 I Work With Traffic Signals. Here’s What The Inside Of A Traffic Light Looks Like
#97 This Peacock-Colored Duck
#98 My Chicken Laid A Spherical Egg
#99 My Scars Don’t Seem To Sweat
#100 My Neighbors Are Moving Their Entire House Back 200 Ft
#101 This Garlic I Bought Doesn’t Have Separate Cloves, It’s Just One Solid Piece
#102 A Chrome Maserati
#103 In The UK The Local Post Box Gets Painted Gold If A Local Wins Gold At The Olympics
#104 I Ripped Up My Old Phone Case To Discover It’s Made Of A Macau Beer Mat
#105 This Nearly 2 Kg Avokado From My Grandmother’s Place
#106 Police In Venice Move Around On Jet Skis
#107 Jennifer Joseph, The Woman Who Posed For Columbia Pictures
#108 Found The Ultra Rare Physoplexis Comosa
#109 This Crayfish Regrowing A Lost Claw
#110 Seafoam Frozen With A High Shutter Speed
#111 Squirrel Without A Bushy Tail
#112 This Is The World’s Shortest Underwater Tunnel
#113 Modern Tomato vs. One Grown From 150-Year-Old Seeds
#114 Macadamia Nut Trees Have Red Sap And Appear To Bleed When You Cut Into Them
#115 A Curving Escalator
#116 I Dropped My Headphones In The Sand And All The Iron Collected On The Magnets
#117 Nasa Shares Photo Of Sun Resembling A Jack-O’-Lantern
#118 You Can See The Difference Between The Tap Water And The Sparkling Water That I Poured Over It
#119 My Grass Is An Inch Lower And Got Frost. My Neighbor’s Did Not
#120 Tree That’s Changing Colors Along The Split Of Its Storm-Damaged Trunk
#121 My Lab Has A 1 Ml Beaker
#122 Lightning Up Close
#123 This Lowercase Stop Sign I Found
#124 My Baby Axolotl Carries A Gene That Makes Him Glow Under Blacklight
#125 The Claw Of A Male Southern Cassowary
#126 The Confederation Bridge In Canada Cuts Ice Like French Fries
#127 Oyster With Pearls
#128 This Electric Upright Bass
#129 Told My Dr. That My Nose Didn’t Work Very Well And He Literally Gave Me Medical Scratch And Sniff Tests
#130 This Plant That Has Exactly Two Branches At Each Node
#131 Parmesan Aging Warehouse
#132 This Hermit Crab In A Glass Shell
#133 All The Letters On My GF’s Lotion Bottle Started Falling Off
#134 The Inside Of A Tennis Ball Looks Delicious
#135 Accidentally Burned My Skin Off On My Knee. The Brown Dots Are My Melanin Coming Back
#136 These Icicles That Froze Orange Because Of The Sap Concentration In The Tree
#137 Canada’s First Ever Vertical Bills Are Now In Circulation
#138 The Way The River Color Splits In Pittsburgh
#139 A Giant Cabbage
#140 A Giant Allen Wrench At Work
#141 My Friend Broke His Arm And The Surgery Misaligned His Tattoo
#142 This Cool Four-Sided Key
#143 Hornworm Poops Are Asterisk Shaped
#144 This Is What A 160,000 M³ MKIII Containment Tank For Liquefied Natural Gas Looks Like On A Cargo Ship
#145 A Cube Of Salt Formed In The Neglected Play Doh From My Cranium Game
#146 This Ridiculous, Nearly Five Pound Lobster Claw
#147 It’s 11 Pm And The Snow Is Making It Look Like Daytime Outside. No Flash Used
#148 The Vodka Aisle At A Supermarket In Poland
#149 In Malaysia We Have Green Toast Infused With A Fragrant Leaf Called Pandan
#150 This White Fern I Found On My Hike Today
#151 You Can Clearly See The Blood This Mosquito Has Stolen From Me
#152 Occasionally Our Chickens Will Lay An Egg With No Shell, Just A Soft Membrane Sack
#153 A Cotton Seed Has Sprouted Inside A Canister In The Chinese Lunar Lander. This Is The First Ever Biological Experiment On The Moon
#154 Scotch Tape Makes Frosted Glass Clear
#155 First Time Seeing A U-Turn Light
#156 The Way These Clouds Drastically Plateau
#157 This Is A Steering Wheel In A Modern Formula One Car
#158 My Buddy’s Off-Centered Pupil
#159 This McDonald’s Sign Only Has One Arch
#160 This Sidewalk Was Melted Into Glass By A Fallen Live Wire
#161 We Have A Really Small Radiator In Our House
#162 Saw A Tesla The Other Day With A Color Changing Paint Job
#163 My Chief Put His Go-Pro On Our Naval Gun (2016)
#164 Caught A Power Pole Exploding On Camera
#165 A Painted Pigeon I Saw In Barcelona
#166 Building The Biggest (2014) Container Ship In The World
The Maersk Triple E is the largest ship ever built by mankind (2014). It can carry 18,000 containers stacked 11 levels high. The engine room is 5 stories tall. There’s a small cinema and swimming pool for the 15-person crew.
#167 Some Of These Shrimp Are Glowing Because They Ate Bioluminescent Plankton
#168 Look At My Blue Cactus
#169 One Million Dollars In Ten Dollar Notes
#170 The Seventeen Stitches Left In My Eye While It Recovers From Corneal Transplant Surgery
#171 The Way My Cat’s Veins Show In The Sunlight
#172 The Center Of This Firewood Is Magenta-Colored
#173 The Ink Depth Of The Print On The U.S. Dollar
#174 Osaka Stadium Before It Was Torn Down. After The Local Baseball Team Relocated, The Stadium Was Repurposed As A Model-Home Exhibition Space
#175 My Pet Crayfish Shed His Exoskeleton
#176 This Is What Floor Heating Looks Like
#177 “Shot On iPhone” Behind The Scenes
#178 My View From Inside A Power Station Cooling Tower
#179 Disney Disguise Their Princesses With A Robe When They Are Not Performing
#180 If You’ve Ever Wondered What’s Under The Stairs Of An Escalator
#181 In Asia We Have Pringle Noodles
#182 This Kids’ Slide With Rollers Near Osaka Castle
#183 A Sea Urchin’s Jaw
#184 The Only Teal McDonald’s M In The World In Sedona, AZ
#185 Not Yet Released 2020 Car Being Driven Downtown, Totally Hidden
#186 Three Screws (Aircraft Grade) That Cost $136.99 Dollars Each
#187 The Last MD-160
#188 My Parent’s Water Is Hot Pink Due To A Chemical Leak
#189 This Is What Happens When Tens Of Thousands Of People Bring Road Flares To A Soccer Stadium
#190 Inside Of A Frag Grenade
#191 These Curved Doors At My Sister’s New House
#192 My Dad Has A 100 Sided Die
#193 Wrinkly Egg I Found In The Supermarket
#194 It Was Really Dark And Bright Today
#195 Mount St. Helens Ash
#196 This Blue Stop Sign
#197 L-Shaped Pool Table In East London
#198 This Giant Icicle I Found
#199 The Engine Control Room Of The Largest Cruise Ship In The World
#200 Behind The Scene When They Did This Street Art
#201 My Neighbors Hose Their Tree When It Gets Cold
#202 The Windshield Wash At My Local Petrol Shoppe This Frigid Morning
#203 A Pack Of Cards With Images Of Iraq’s Most Wanted That Would Be Given To Troops In Around 2003 To Help Them Identify The Biggest Threats
#204 What A Fire Hydrant Looks Like Before It’s Plumbed In
#205 Never Before Used Dumpster In My Alley
#206 Behind The Scenes Look At NASA’s Mission Control Center
#207 This Is A Chrome Tesla I Saw On The Highway
#208 Only The Menu Given To The Person Paying Has Prices At A 2* Michelin Restaurant
#209 My Neck Skin Is Stretchy Enough To Allow Me To Suck On It With No Hands
#210 Led Screens Behind The Scenes
#211 My New Transparent Debit Card
#212 The Biggest Lobster Claw I’ve Ever Seen
#213 This Simulated City Inside My Grand Mother’s Skilled Nursing Facility
#214 This Is How The Little Tables In Pizza Boxes Are Packaged
#215 A Tour Of A Local News Station
