The Most Truly Fascinating Photos

Wheat and lavender. 

This 1938 Phantom Corsair.

The Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq, 1974.

Rainbow and lightning.

June 17, 1940 vs the 2000s.

 The curtain from the apartment of a smoker after being put in soap water.

An infrared photo of a garden.

A picture of the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, pictured with a city for scale.

A water bridge in Wales.

A six foot seven male red kangaroo.

 After being struck by lightning.

This city in Mexico.

Cornea transplant.

A homeless mans dwelling in downtown Los Angeles.

Oil dripped onto this rock and froze in place.

Reading and waiting, decades apart.

The Ili pika spotted last summer in China, 

it had not been seen for over 20 years prior.

This huge cactus.

Blue-ringed octopus.

This honeycomb perfection.