34 Fascinating Pics to Refresh Your Perspective

Nathan Johnson Published 05/18/2021 in wow

Our world is an amazing place. But with work, responsibilities and all of the other pressures that accompany modern life, it's easy to forget to stop and take stock of just how wonderfully preposterous our very existence is. Hyper-intelligent primates, armed with nuclear weapons, adrift through space aboard an organic spaceship that orbits a super-heated ball of gas at 67,000 miles per hour.

Within that soup of entropic strangeness, some remarkable sights are bound to be captured on camera -- especially since pretty much every member of the planet's most dominant species is armed with a mobile, high-resolution camera. As long as members of said species remember to get off TikTok every once in a while to look around, of course.

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“Russian woman snipers. Nearly 800 kills in this picture.”
2.
“Little girl having a tea party with a lobster and a hawk in 1938.”
3.
“The skeleton of a stingray.”
4.
“Unseen for over 2000 years, archaeologists uncover a mosaic in Zeugma, Turkey.”
5.
“An illusion of a giant wave.”
6.
“Bavarian town of Nordlingen built in a 14 million year old meteor impact crater.”
7.
“An F-35 after a freezing rain test.”
8.
“The living fence you don't wanna try to climb.”
9.
“This cool stained glass greenhouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts.”
10.
“A retired Boeing 727 in a forest in Oregon converted into a residence Bruce Campbell purchased for $100,000”
11.
“This frozen lake in Switzerland!”
12.
“This is a baby albino owl.”
13.
“"Pacaya Pizza" is a specialty cooked on the fresh & still-hot lava flows of Guatemala's Pacaya volcano.”
14.
“Eggshell with over 20,000 holes drilled into it.”
15.
“The SSC tuatara just broke the roadcar speed record. 316MPH or 508KM/H”
16.
“The Kailasa temple in India, entire temple is carved from a single rock.”
17.
“This Road In JAPAN Torn Almost Exactly Along Its Centre Line In The Devasting Earthquake Of March 2011.”
18.
“Man forced to sell his car after losing almost all of his money. (Stock Market Crash, New York, 1929)”
19.
“A quokka and his baby. The quokka is a small marsupial whose popularity is due to the permanent smile it displays.”
20.
“A tree being a real bro”
21.
““Stop! This is the Empire of the Dead” - Engraving on the entrance to the Catacombs of Paris, which holds the remains of more than 6 million dead people.”
22.
“The grave of H.R. Giger, the Swiss sculptor/designer who designed, among other things, the alien creatures for the movie Alien.”
23.
“Dragon Blood Tree, Socotra Island; It releases a red sap or resin that is known as dragon's blood. People use it as a pigment for art, a dye or a medicine.”
24.
“One in a million shot of a blackbird catching a ride on an osprey’s stick in Michigan.”
25.
“An early analog flight simulator.”
26.
“Jellyfish-infested waters in Peru.”
27.
28.
“Past and Present of Seoul, South Korea.”
29.
“An Artist in Lyon Known as “the Pavement Surgeon” Repairs the City’s Sidewalks using Colorful Mosaics.”
30.
“Egyptian Pyramids”
31.
“This is Wojtek the bear. He was found by polish soldiers, who trained him to become one too. He is a celebrated hero in Poland.”
32.
“Children in Vietnam in quarantine because there's no children size suit.”
33.
“The Raspberries Found In Himachal, India.”
34.
“Yaroslavl 16.05.21”

1.
“Russian woman snipers. Nearly 800 kills in this picture.”
2.
“Little girl having a tea party with a lobster and a hawk in 1938.”
3.
“The skeleton of a stingray.”
4.
“Unseen for over 2000 years, archaeologists uncover a mosaic in Zeugma, Turkey.”
5.
“An illusion of a giant wave.”
6.
“Bavarian town of Nordlingen built in a 14 million year old meteor impact crater.”
7.
“An F-35 after a freezing rain test.”
8.
“The living fence you don't wanna try to climb.”
9.
“This cool stained glass greenhouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts.”
10.
“A retired Boeing 727 in a forest in Oregon converted into a residence Bruce Campbell purchased for $100,000”
11.
“This frozen lake in Switzerland!”
12.
“This is a baby albino owl.”
13.
“"Pacaya Pizza" is a specialty cooked on the fresh & still-hot lava flows of Guatemala's Pacaya volcano.”
14.
“Eggshell with over 20,000 holes drilled into it.”
15.
“The SSC tuatara just broke the roadcar speed record. 316MPH or 508KM/H”
16.
“The Kailasa temple in India, entire temple is carved from a single rock.”
17.
“This Road In JAPAN Torn Almost Exactly Along Its Centre Line In The Devasting Earthquake Of March 2011.”
18.
“Man forced to sell his car after losing almost all of his money. (Stock Market Crash, New York, 1929)”
19.
“A quokka and his baby. The quokka is a small marsupial whose popularity is due to the permanent smile it displays.”
20.
“A tree being a real bro”
21.
““Stop! This is the Empire of the Dead” - Engraving on the entrance to the Catacombs of Paris, which holds the remains of more than 6 million dead people.”
22.
“The grave of H.R. Giger, the Swiss sculptor/designer who designed, among other things, the alien creatures for the movie Alien.”
23.
“Dragon Blood Tree, Socotra Island; It releases a red sap or resin that is known as dragon's blood. People use it as a pigment for art, a dye or a medicine.”
24.
“One in a million shot of a blackbird catching a ride on an osprey’s stick in Michigan.”
25.
“An early analog flight simulator.”
26.
“Jellyfish-infested waters in Peru.”
27.
28.
“Past and Present of Seoul, South Korea.”
29.
“An Artist in Lyon Known as “the Pavement Surgeon” Repairs the City’s Sidewalks using Colorful Mosaics.”
30.
“Egyptian Pyramids”
31.
“This is Wojtek the bear. He was found by polish soldiers, who trained him to become one too. He is a celebrated hero in Poland.”
32.
“Children in Vietnam in quarantine because there's no children size suit.”
33.
“The Raspberries Found In Himachal, India.”
34.
“Yaroslavl 16.05.21”