22 Fascinating Photos of Our Fascinating World

Peter Rapine Published 06/19/2024 in wow

The world is far more fascinating than most people know.

Luckily for you, I spent some time today tracking down some world-shattering pictures of space, people, and sights that are too often overlooked.

So if you like looking at fascinating photos online, you've come to the right place.

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Earth behind a flower grown on the International Space Station
2.
A NASA ion engine while under test at the Glenn Research Center. It can propel spacecrafts to speeds of up to 320,000 km per hour
3.
A real house in Margate (UK) purposefully built with a sliding facade by artist Alex Chinneck in 2014
4.
Children with straw capes for protection from the weather. Japan,
5.
A man discovered some architectural heritage of the 14th Century in his house in Ubeda, Spain
6.
Congo red puffers spend most of their time burrowed under the sand like this
7.
Little League Allstars won a District championship Sunday in Crystal River, Florida while a waterspout tornado formed in the distance.
8.
The funeral carriage that brought Abraham Lincoln to his grave. Located at the automobile museum in Tallahassee, Florida
9.
A "happy" crater on Mercury, photographed by the Messenger spacecraft
10.
Asteroid images taken by Japanese Hayabusa /Rover 1b
11.
The first known photograph of someone flipping the bird in 1886.
12.
“In Roman times, the so-called 'Tiger Eyes' small white stones were placed among the stones on the road so that they could be seen at night.”
13.
Paying $4,060 for a 9GB drive in 1994
14.
15.
Photograph of Miranda, a moon of Uranus, by Voyager-2
16.
Difference between the Rich vs. Poor - Johannesburg, South Africa
17.
Sandwiches for sale in London, 1972
18.
Giant Elephant Ear Plant
19.
“The kind of toilet you're obligated to use if you want to visit the largest cave in the world in Vietnam. Your waste is covered with rice husks and carried out by porters, so that nothing is left behind”
20.
Children checking how fat they are in Korea using a government installed width gate.
21.
"Outside my local Tractor Supply"
22.
“The oldest website still online is info.cern.ch, which was launched on August 6, 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, the inventors of the World Wide Web at CERN. The website was dedicated to the World Wide Web project and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer.”

1.
Earth behind a flower grown on the International Space Station
2.
A NASA ion engine while under test at the Glenn Research Center. It can propel spacecrafts to speeds of up to 320,000 km per hour
3.
A real house in Margate (UK) purposefully built with a sliding facade by artist Alex Chinneck in 2014
4.
Children with straw capes for protection from the weather. Japan,
5.
A man discovered some architectural heritage of the 14th Century in his house in Ubeda, Spain
6.
Congo red puffers spend most of their time burrowed under the sand like this
7.
Little League Allstars won a District championship Sunday in Crystal River, Florida while a waterspout tornado formed in the distance.
8.
The funeral carriage that brought Abraham Lincoln to his grave. Located at the automobile museum in Tallahassee, Florida
9.
A "happy" crater on Mercury, photographed by the Messenger spacecraft
10.
Asteroid images taken by Japanese Hayabusa /Rover 1b
11.
The first known photograph of someone flipping the bird in 1886.
12.
“In Roman times, the so-called 'Tiger Eyes' small white stones were placed among the stones on the road so that they could be seen at night.”
13.
Paying $4,060 for a 9GB drive in 1994
14.
15.
Photograph of Miranda, a moon of Uranus, by Voyager-2
16.
Difference between the Rich vs. Poor - Johannesburg, South Africa
17.
Sandwiches for sale in London, 1972
18.
Giant Elephant Ear Plant
19.
“The kind of toilet you're obligated to use if you want to visit the largest cave in the world in Vietnam. Your waste is covered with rice husks and carried out by porters, so that nothing is left behind”
20.
Children checking how fat they are in Korea using a government installed width gate.
21.
"Outside my local Tractor Supply"
22.
“The oldest website still online is info.cern.ch, which was launched on August 6, 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, the inventors of the World Wide Web at CERN. The website was dedicated to the World Wide Web project and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer.”