25 Captivating Images Of The World We Live In

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1. Where the Great Wall of China ends. (Shanhaiguan, China)

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2. An enormous statue of Genghis Khan in Mongolia

3. The Bavarian town of Nordlingen built in a 14 million year old meteor impact crater

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4. A dust storm that hit Western Australia in 2013

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5. Climbers on Mount Everest

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6. Cross-section of an undersea cable

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7. Inside one of Google’s data centers. The colorful pipes send and receive water for cooling the facility. Bikes are the preferred method of transportation inside the massive center.

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8. Albert Einstein’s desk hours after his death

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9. One of Michelangelo’s grocery lists with illustrations so his illiterate servants know what to buy.

10. An Overcrowded prison in El Salvador

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11. Adolf Hilter’s office in the Chancellery in Berlin

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12. Pugs—before and after years of selective breeding

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13. Octopus eggs

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14. A watch belonging to a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, stopped at 8:15, the exact time of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945

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15. Five pounds of fat compared to five pounds of muscle

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16. Cancer cells under an electron microscope

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17. The clearest photo of Mercury ever taken

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18. A sunset on Mars, captured by the Spirit rover

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19. The Northern Lights seen from the International Space Station

20. Microscopic image of a human tongue

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21. The tallest statue in the world: The Spring Temple Buddha in Henan, China. Standing at 153 meters tall, 60 meters taller than The Statue of Liberty.

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22. 144-year-old Wisteria, the largest one in Japan

23. The interchange of I-295 near Jacksonville, Florida

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24. A quadruple rainbow

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25. The space shuttle Atlantis as seen from the International Space Station

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