A Giant Flamingo Made Of Real Flamingos – Yucatan, Mexico

Photographer Bobby Haas was getting ready to leave with his helicopter when he noticed this once-in-a-lifetime view of flamingos. When the photo was published, he got huge media attention. This is what he said, “Some people claim that the image is divine intervention and proof that there is a God.“

Photo: Bobby Haas/National Geographic

The Escalator To Hell – Stockholm’s Subway

Over 90 of the 100 subway stations in Stockholm are decorated with sculptures, mosaics, paintings, installations, and relief statues, so no wonder Stockholm Metro is considered to be the world’s longest art gallery. One of the stations, however, stands out – it is Solna Centrum, and it lies just a bit north of the city center. The rocks, in which the station was dug into, are painted in a super deep, vivid red, and it feels as if you are walking into a tunnel caught in flames.

Cocooned Trees – Pakistan

What you are looking at are trees covered in spider webs. The rare phenomenon is observed in Pakistan where, in 2010, rainfall poured onto Pakistani villages and cities, completely ravaging them. When the rain stopped, the locals started noticing the cocooned trees. Because of the slow retreat of the water in the flooded areas, the insects, spiders, and other living creatures were forced to seek shelter above ground.

The Rainbow Hot Spring – Yellowstone

The Great Prismatic Spring might seem Photoshopped but the stunning colors have an actual scientific explanation. The secret behind the vibrant spring’s colors is the heat-loving bacteria that call the spring their home. Water at the center of the spring reaches temperatures around 189 degrees Fahrenheit, which makes it too hot to support life. Because of the absence of life in the center of the spring, the water has a deep-blue color, thanks to the scattering of blue wavelengths.

The Man With A Hole In His Face

Mechanic Billy Owen was diagnosed with sinonasal carcinoma – a rare form of cancer affecting the nasal cavity that has only a 10 percent survival rate. In Owen’s case, the cancer cells had spread so extensively that surgeons had to remove half his face, including his right eye, and the muscles and nerves. The patient beat death, but now he has this giant hole where his right eye was.

Model Hanging Off A Skyscraper – Dubai

While on a trip to Dubai, model Viki Odintkova decided to go to the top of Cayan Tower, one of the tallest buildings in the world, and, for fun and media glory, to take a breath-taking photo. In the shots from the video, she is seen leaning backwards off the side of the skyscraper without any safety equipment, holding only a male assistant’s arm.

A Crazy-Looking Icelandic River

You can spend 20 minutes staring at this photo and still, you won’t be able to make your brain see anything but a Salvador Dali type of painting. The photographer is Andre Ermulaev and it was taken in Iceland. The Photoshop effect was achieved because the river was captured at the weirdest possible angle. In fact, Ermulaev has specialized in aerial images of rivers flowing through volcanoes in Iceland.

Photo: Andre Ermulaev

This Unexplainable Architectural Illusion

This French artist and photographer is called The Grandfather of single-perspective installations. The guy has been creating his painted perspective installations in soon-to-be demolished buildings since the 1980s. When he selects a site, George Rousse creates a unique angular perspective, that when photographed compels the viewer to question their own senses and their understanding of space, in general.

A Melting Building Mural – Paris

The artist behind this amazing mural is John Pugh, who has been in the tricking-the-eye business for more than 30 years. “People take delight in being visually tricked, “ he says. “ With a clear intention to create a public art attraction, I strive to design a mural in a way that is atypical, and involves thinking out of the box.”

A Bridge Leading To.. Nowhere? – Norway

This is Storseisundet Bridge, and is a tourist attraction in Norway. Locals also call it ‘the Drunk bridge’, and the Daily Mail described it as ‘the road to nowhere’. You can easily guess why. No matter how you look at this weirdly shaped construction, it always looks different from all angles. The bridge is the longest of the eight bridges that make up the Atlantic Road, linking mainland Norway with the island of Averoy.