Our world is wondrous yet weird, surprising yet monotonous, always ready to amaze. This gallery of photographs reinforces my view that one can never stop being enchanted with the wonders of the world until one’s dying days.
Main picture: A village in Yemen
Winter morning in Norway
This is where the great wall of China ends
There is a school in Britain which has had the same school attire for 460 years
The world’s longest lasting electric light has been burning for 115 years
The world’s largest diamond, the Cullinan Diamond was posted from South Africa to Britain
The volcanic island of Aogashima, Japan with a population of 200
The Stockholm Metro system looks like a cave
The singing tree. Wind blowing through the pipes creates the music
The remains of an American aircraft that crashed in Wales during WW2
The Natural History Museum in London
The Mitchell multi-level falls in Australia
The last photo taken of the Titanic in 1912
The internet speed at NASA is 91 Gbs
The Golden Turtle conserves energy by floating on a jellyfish
The founder of FedEx saved his company from bankruptcy by going to Las Vegas, gambling its last $5000 on blackjack and winning $27000, enough to keep FedEx going for another week while it secured additional funds
The Forest Lake in Russia
he bridge between Denmark and Sweden becomes a tunnel
The blue sunset of Mars
Tabletop mountains in Venezuela
Sunset curling with a wave
Sky looking like a rough sea
Scientists claim that if the universe is infinite, there is an exact copy of everybody somewhere
President Obama’s post presidential house
Paris viewed from the Eiffel Tower
Okinawa has 450 people living on it greater than 100 years of age making it the healthiest place on earth to live
Mount Fuji in Japan as seen from the sea
Mount Fiji and the Milky Way
Long walks are impossible
Lawrence G. Tesler, the inventor of Copy and Paste
Invisible ice
Interior of a Bagatti Chiron
Incorporating nature into the design
Nikola Tesla predicted the Internet. In 1900, he wrote an article for Century Magazine describing a “world system” of wireless communications that could send telephone messages, news, music and pictures to any part of the world.
Iceland has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world
Humpback whales feeding in Alaska
How did the balancing rock get there
Four hundred million years ago there were 22 hours in a day and over 400 days in a year
Elephant Rock in New Zealand
Eighteen foot underwater statue in the Bahamas
Dragon gate in Dublin
Crystal clear water of Flathead Lake in Montana
China’s richest village
Cave above the clouds
Cars have been banned on Mackinac Island, Michigan since 1898
Camping in Iceland
Brooklyn Supreme, the world’s biggest horse
Best photograph of 2016
An ice canyon in Greenland
An extremely rare iceberg in Antartica which has flipped over
An eight ton orca jumping 15 feet out of the water
A wheatfield next to a lavender field
A Swedish Naval Base
A supermoon on 16th November 2016
A pyroclastic surge can exceed 290 mph and a temperature of 1830 degrees F
A night time rainbow or Moonbow
A mysterious lake, over 10 metres deep. which appeared overnight in the Tunisian desert
A music school in China
A drive through log in Sequoia National Park
A cabin in the woods in Washington State
A black sand beach in Iceland
A black sand beach in Dyroholaey, Iceland
1800s vampire hunting kit
1500 year old Angel Oak tree in South Carolina
100,000 monks in prayer for a better world
36.000 feet over Australiaure
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