30 Fascinating Photos Made Even Better With Context Added

Nathan Johnson Published 10/16/2023 in wow

These images are interesting enough on their own, but even cooler once you know extra details.

The world is a big, wide, fascinating place! There is just so much cool stuff to see and learn about out there and there's literally NO way you could ever squeeze in all of it in a single lifetime. That, to me, is the great tragedy of mortality - we are each doomed to leave this Earth without understanding it completely.

While that universal truth will never become a lie, collections like these certainly do help us learn as much as we can in a short amount of time.

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1.
“A tram in the Netherlands failed to stop in time and broke through the emergency barrier. It's being held up by the statue of a whale's tail.”
2.
“These two houses in Red Deer Alberta join backyards every winter to build a hockey rink for their kids. There's a terraced viewing deck, a hot tub and grill.”
3.
“Gorilla Apocalypse by sculptor Luke Kite.”
4.
“The Sorrel Leopard Appaloosa, it's ancestors were bred by the Nez Perce Indians.”
5.
“Shadows of Chicago on frozen Lake Michigan.”
6.
“Soviet Era Tupolev tu-104 Jet Interior.”
7.
“View of the United Kingdom from the ISS.”
8.
“This is what olive oil looks like, right after it's squashed from olives.”
9.
“Clay Castle of the Valley of Fairies, Transylvania, Romania.”
10.
“Amazing photo of an owl in front of the moon with Mars above. ”
11.
“Microburst Rain Bombs are when the Cloud Gives Out and Gallons Upon Gallons of Water Fall Onto One Area.”
12.
“A telephone booth cemetery on the outskirts of London.”
13.
“This is how NASA envisioned Torodial Space Colonies in the 1970's (population 10.000)”
14.
“Hermit crab in a glass shell.”
15.
“A tooth extraction taking place in a liquor store in 1872 before dentistry became a common profession in of itself.”
16.
“The best preserved dinosaur fossil ever discovered- a 110 million year old Nodosaur.”
17.
“Whitehaven Beach in Australia looks unreal.”
18.
“Lithops, living stones.”
19.
“NASA X-43 holds the fastest aircraft speed record at Mach 9.6”
20.
“Tiny koifishes made using polymer clay.”
21.
“A Chinese bronze sword with turquoise studded, gold inlaid, rock crystal hilt - Warring States Period, 4th-2nd century BC.”
22.
“Hiroshima, before when it got wiped off the map and less than a single lifetime after.”
23.
“The ghost of Ungru Manor in Estonia.”
24.
25.
“Salar de Uyuni aka Bolivian Salt Flat is so large and so extraordinarily flat that in rainy season it becomes the world's largest mirror - spanning 130 kilometers.”
26.
“Busts of former US presidents from a now closed museum in Virginia.”
27.
“The scream out of paper clips.”
28.
“Glacier National Park in Montana.”
29.
“The shades of blue on this splendid fairy wren.”
30.
“The Burj Khalifa from above.”

1.
“A tram in the Netherlands failed to stop in time and broke through the emergency barrier. It's being held up by the statue of a whale's tail.”
2.
“These two houses in Red Deer Alberta join backyards every winter to build a hockey rink for their kids. There's a terraced viewing deck, a hot tub and grill.”
3.
“Gorilla Apocalypse by sculptor Luke Kite.”
4.
“The Sorrel Leopard Appaloosa, it's ancestors were bred by the Nez Perce Indians.”
5.
“Shadows of Chicago on frozen Lake Michigan.”
6.
“Soviet Era Tupolev tu-104 Jet Interior.”
7.
“View of the United Kingdom from the ISS.”
8.
“This is what olive oil looks like, right after it's squashed from olives.”
9.
“Clay Castle of the Valley of Fairies, Transylvania, Romania.”
10.
“Amazing photo of an owl in front of the moon with Mars above. ”
11.
“Microburst Rain Bombs are when the Cloud Gives Out and Gallons Upon Gallons of Water Fall Onto One Area.”
12.
“A telephone booth cemetery on the outskirts of London.”
13.
“This is how NASA envisioned Torodial Space Colonies in the 1970's (population 10.000)”
14.
“Hermit crab in a glass shell.”
15.
“A tooth extraction taking place in a liquor store in 1872 before dentistry became a common profession in of itself.”
16.
“The best preserved dinosaur fossil ever discovered- a 110 million year old Nodosaur.”
17.
“Whitehaven Beach in Australia looks unreal.”
18.
“Lithops, living stones.”
19.
“NASA X-43 holds the fastest aircraft speed record at Mach 9.6”
20.
“Tiny koifishes made using polymer clay.”
21.
“A Chinese bronze sword with turquoise studded, gold inlaid, rock crystal hilt - Warring States Period, 4th-2nd century BC.”
22.
“Hiroshima, before when it got wiped off the map and less than a single lifetime after.”
23.
“The ghost of Ungru Manor in Estonia.”
24.
25.
“Salar de Uyuni aka Bolivian Salt Flat is so large and so extraordinarily flat that in rainy season it becomes the world's largest mirror - spanning 130 kilometers.”
26.
“Busts of former US presidents from a now closed museum in Virginia.”
27.
“The scream out of paper clips.”
28.
“Glacier National Park in Montana.”
29.
“The shades of blue on this splendid fairy wren.”
30.
“The Burj Khalifa from above.”