Here are some fascinating photos to help get you thinking about the world around you.

Very often, we become so consumed with what our own back yard looks like, and what the immediate scope of our life looks like, that we fail to think about and marvel at the world around us. These 17 photos, though they do not contain an overarching theme, all stir the mind with interest and help us to broaden our scope of the world we live in.

Inside the bowl of the Stanley Cup, names engraved are members of the 1907 Montreal Wanderers

The back of the Great Sphinx of Giza’s head

Inside airplane cargo hold

“Whale of a Problem” by Phillipines Greenpeace, rubbish & plastic waste, life-size, 2017

This Indian woman, who was born in Mumbai to typical Indian parents, has a ginger hair, freckles and white skin. She looks like a typical Gaelic woman and has spent her life being shunned and bullied because people think she’s diseased.

19-year-old DJ Shipley during his time in ST10. A member of BUD/S Class 246 and one of the youngest men to ever graduate at 17

Picture of a man with Schizophrenia before and after his Lobotomy

Each of the 8 stadiums at the World Cup, in Qatar, will have large arrays of gigantic air conditioners to battle the very hot temperatures

People offering prayers at the Yamuna River, India, which is frothing from industrial waste

Body riddled with parasites as a result of eating raw pork for 10 years

Kamna Shastri is an Indian-American woman who was born with Albinism, pictured with her parents and brother. She has talked in detail that due to similar facial features with white people she and other Albino Indians pass as white and that she is treated as a white person in both America and India

A Razer Kraken gaming headset have saved its wearer’s life by deflecting a stray bullet that came through their window

Guard armed with suppressed PKP during Boris Johnson’s visit