49 Engaging and Remarkable Photos

This is what the back of the “Mona Lisa” looks like:

Now, you’re obviously familiar with the front side of a peacock. It’s majestic. Glorious, even! But have you ever seen a peacock’s back side? Now you have:

This, in all its glory, is what the inside of the Wienermobile looks like:

This is what’s behind a movie screen:

You can tell the difference between cheap pasta and expensive pasta by looking at them:

This is what the city of Seattle used to be like before a major regrading project changed it, flattening hills and reshaping the landscape to “open up the city to more commerce”:

This is what a credit card from the 1950s looked like:

Screwdrivers…well, screwdrivers can be really, really big:

This what a map of the world’s oceans and only the world’s oceans looks like:

There’s a place in Norway named Rjukan that, because it’s wedged between a bunch of tall mountains, only gets sun for less than half a year:

In order to get the residents some of that sweet, sweet vitamin D, a series of giant mirrors were built to reflect sunlight into the town. You can see them at work here:

And finally, this is the statement President Jimmy Carter wrote and put aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft, intended for any aliens the probe might encounter:

Before he died, Abraham Lincoln had a “life mask” made of his face. This is what it looked like:

This is what the “American Selection” in an Irish grocery store looks like:

This is what a fingerprint from a person born without fingerprints looks like:

Coconuts, my friend…coconuts can be very, very tiny:

This is how an offshore oil platform is transported to the location where it will be installed:

Way out on the edge of the galaxy is this big ol’ hunk of rock called Ultima Thule or 486958 Arrokoth, the farthest thing from Earth humanity has ever “explored up close”:

Before it found its home in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty’s head was on display at the 1878 Paris World’s Fair:

And here’s what Lady Lib looked like while it was being packed up to be shipped to the US:

Edible coffee cups exist:

There’s a street named “Bucket Of Blood Street” in Arizona:

This is a proposed warning to be placed at nuclear dumping ground to warn future generations of the danger of its contents:

Baby LEGOs exist. BABY LEGOS EXIST!

Traffic lights are absolutely huge:

This right here is Vincent van Gogh’s painting palette:

This is what a map of the United States looked like in 1783:

This is the personal water closet of the last German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II:

This is what a thing of string cheese looks like when it goes bad…very bad:

This is what a store-bought egg looks like compared with an egg bought at a farmers market:

This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:

This is the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore the night he was assassinated:

The small island in the middle of this picture is where Princess Diana is buried:

The words added to the dictionary in 1900 are an absolute doozy:

This is what a “fresh cup” of banana juice looks like:

This is what a newborn baby hippo looks like:

This is the heaviest building in the world, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania:

In the mid-1800s, any of these things could get you admitted to a “lunatic asylum”:

This is what a real, authentic plague mask from the 1500s looked like:

Social Security cards used to not be a flimsy little piece of paper:

This is what a pistachio looks like before it’s harvested and becomes the delicious nut we know and love:

Hospitals have machines that allow doctors and nurses to see exactly where your veins are:

Cooling towers have an open bottom:

The Mars Curiosity rover is drilling a ton of holes on Mars. Here’s what 36 of them look like:

This is what a cell in Sweden’s biggest prison looks like:

This is what a cross-section of wood from the 1950s looks like compared with a cross-section of wood from today:

And this is what the set of I Love Lucy looks like in full color:

This is (probably) the oldest olive tree on Earth, clocking in at a whopping 3,500-plus years old:

Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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