This is what a wild peanut growing out of the ground looks like:

So many people lose their hats at the Hoover Dam that there’s basically a hat graveyard at the bottom:

This is what Mount St. Helens looked like before it erupted in 1980, becoming the deadliest volcanic eruption in US history…

And this is what Mount St. Helens looked like after the 1980 eruption:

This is what economy class on a commercial plane looked like in the 1960s:

This is what the inside of a quarter looks like:

This is what the blowhole on a humpback whale looks like:

Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:

In some lines of work, you cannot carry a cellphone with a camera. This is what an iPhone with no camera looks like:

This is what a hummingbird egg looks like compared to an ostrich egg:

This is what the Statue of Liberty looks like from the back:

This, in all its 1912 glory, is what a first-class suite looked like on the Titanic:

Some libraries tell you just how much using them has saved you. Spoiler alert, my friend — it’s a lot:

In some places you can buy BAGS of cooking oil:

Avocado pits… well, they can be very tiny:

This is a sunfish…

And this is what the skeleton of a sunfish looks like:

While we’re talking ‘tons, this is what a penguin’s skeleton looks like:

This is what a stairwell that doesn’t loop around and only goes in one direction looks like:

This is how good Disney World is at hiding their rides, specifically the Haunted Mansion:

Helmets really, really work:

This is what the inside of a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine looks like:

In a French deck of playing cards, instead of seeing J, Q, and K, you’ll see V, D, and R:

Texas makes Europe look super small:

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