Embark on a visual odyssey through a captivating gallery that possess the enchanting power to mesmerize and hold your attention captive.
The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in US history, resulting in the deaths of over 3,000 people. In the aftermath of the disaster, you could literally see where the Earth split along the San Andreas Fault:
Here’s another picture of a San Francisco street split in two:
This behemoth is the world’s largest telescope, the FAST telescope located in China:
In 2010, 30 intact champagne bottles were found inside a ship that had sunk in the Baltic Sea more than two centuries before, around 1780:
This is what the “back” of the Hoover Dam looked like prior to being flooded with water:
And this is what that same side looks like today:
This is what the Taco Bell menu looked like in the early 1980s:
A fruit named Hala looks like an exploding planet and tastes like sugarcane.
A perfect bridge that looks like a red romantic moon thanks to the reflection
“Chocolate nobody opened for 2 years”
“Me and my bf have the same mole on opposite hands.”
The snow that gracefully slips off the car like a blanket
Conjoined cherry tomatoes.
“This moth in my garden.”
The beautiful and structured way these trees lined up
A perfectly round natural stone at the beach
“Some of my hair after chemo grew back black, in the opposite direction, and is a different texture.”
A rock tower balanced on little rocks that creates the illusion of a stairway
This paint was never factory mixed, and now we can see all the colors it needs to be created.
This is Wendy Thomas, the daughter of Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas and the namesake of the restaurant:
This is what the passenger cabin on a Pan Am flight in the 1940s looked like:
Some of the Titanic’s deck chairs were salvaged from the wreck. Here’s what one of them looks like:
In 1908, huge crowds gathered in Boston to watch Harry Houdini jump off a bridge while tied up in chains:
This is John Smith, a Chippewa man who was reported to be 137 years old at the time of his death:
Koalas have fingerprints that are extremely similar to human fingerprints:
Playgrounds were extremely dangerous in the early 1900s:
This is what the Taco Bell menu looked like in 1973:
This silicon sphere is the roundest object in the world:
It was created to “redefine the kilogram in terms of the Planck constant.” In addition, if this sphere was enlarged to be the same size as Earth, the highest point and the deepest point would be just 10 feet apart.
This is what the McDonald’s menu looked like in the 1960s:
This is what a college dorm room looked like in the 1890s:
And here are two roommates palling around in a dorm room circa 1910:
This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear’s footprint:
This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:
This is what a mobile home looked like in the 1930s:
Pocketknifes can be really, really, really, really, really tiny:
This is how many barrels of wine the French army supplied for its troops for the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I:
This right here, ladies and gentlemen, is the world’s oldest cat door:
There are libraries that tell you exactly how much you’re saving by checking books out:
One of Queen Elizabeth’s childhood corgis was named Jane, and the other was named…Dookie:
This isn’t photoshop — it’s the Sendai Daikannon, the fifth-tallest statue in the world:
Speaking of big, giant things, this is the Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying creature to have ever existed:
This picture of a hairless chimpanzee really demonstrates just how absolutely yoked chimps are:
Here’s one more look at a jacked chimpanzee, because you deserve it:
Speaking of which, this is Harrison Schmitt, one of four living men to have set foot on the moon’s surface, and the one who did it most recently:
Here’s another picture of Schmitt walking on the moon:
This was the menu served to the third-class passengers aboard the Titanic on the day the ship sank:
This is a statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead, that was found inside the pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb:
And here’s what the statue looks like today:
This photo from a Seattle lumberyard in 1919 show just how high stacks of lumber could go in those days:
Speaking of lumber, one of the more creative ways bootleggers would hide alcohol during Prohibition was inside trucks lined with wood, complete with a tiny trapdoor:
These are the contestants in the 1930 Miss Lovely Eyes beauty pageant, a contest where woman had to wear an absolutely terrifying mask so that only her eyes were visible:
Source: www.buzzfeed.com