24 Fascinating Pictures That’ll Make You Stare Longer Than You ShouldImages so captivating you’ll forget what you were supposed to be doing
Ever click on something thinking you will glance for a second, and then suddenly it is twenty minutes later and you are questioning reality? Yeah, that is about to happen.
These are the kind of pictures that hijack your attention without asking. Some are jaw-dropping, some are wonderfully weird, and some will make you wonder if you accidentally stepped into a different dimension. You will probably zoom in, tilt your head, and maybe even Google a few just to make sure they are real.
No smoke and mirrors, just the internet delivering pure visual magic you didn’t know you needed until now. So get comfortable, because you are about to forget whatever you were doing before you clicked this.
1. Drone captures an entire herd of sleeping elephants.
2. These are the “Stairs of Death,” an extremely steep staircase located in Peru’s Huayna Picchu:
3. Mutation in a crocodile.
4. This is the first digital picture ever created, a close-up of engineer Russell Kirsch’s son Walden from 1957:
5. This is how a lion gets a CT scan.
6. Uranium glass glows under UV light:
7. The Statue of Liberty completely surrounded by scaffolding during its 1984-1986 restoration.
8. After World War I, a bunch of officers got together to pay tribute to the fallen horses lost in battle:
9. This is what the inside of a grenade looks like:
10. Cashews grow on trees like this:
11. After 12 years on Mars, the Curiosity rover has a big hole in one of its wheels:
12. If you ever look at your airplane window and see this, it means a pilot is dumping fuel:
13. This is what an ostrich without feathers looks like:
14. This is what the inside of a water tower looks like:
15. This is what the inside of a commercial airplane looked like in 1926:
16. Here’s another cabin of an airplane from around the same time period:
17. The phases of the pepper laid out.
18. There’s a highway built on top of apartment buildings in Guiyang City, China:
19. This is what it looked like while Abraham Lincoln’s face was under construction during the making of Mount Rushmore:
20. This is what a snowflake looks like under an electron microscope:
21. This is a map of where you can find Venus flytraps in the wild:
22. The different ways to say something like “It’s the bee’s knees” in various languages are incredible:
23. This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:
24. This is what a six foot block of cheese looks like:
