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Easter Island Heads -

The ancient and mysterious 'Easter Island Heads' are usually seen as just that—heads. As it turns out, they have whole bodies buried beneath the ground!

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Hair ice -

This rare cotton-candy type of ice blooms from dead wood, with the help of fungi, and takes the shape of fine, silky hair. It appears at night and melts when the sun comes up.

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How bricks are laid - The Netherlands uses a brick-laying machine that really makes you question everything you thought you knew about construction. Why doesn't everyone do this?

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Baby flamingo - Lacking their infamous pink color, the babies are fed a bright red milk made from their parents' upper digestive tracts and grow pink feathers with age.

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The inside of a guitar - Or a spacious one-bedroom apartment with a stunning skylight?

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Strawberry ovaries -

Strawberry "seeds," these little pear-looking pods, are actually the ovaries of the berry, and even constitute their own fruit, each of which holds a real seed inside.

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Inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa -

That's why the pictures are always from the outside! It's not just for that cheesy pose. 

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Vein system of a hand - The stuff of paper cut nightmares.

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A turtle's skeleton - Did you know a turtle's shell is actually connected to their spine?

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The underside of a lily pad - A system of stems and tubes run underneath the lily pad, which connect to openings on top and help the pad collect oxygen and float!

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Blue whale blow holes - They have noses just like us!

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The summit of Mt. Everest -

While you might imagine a gorgeous, serene vista of blue and white, the summit is now actually covered in both prayer and national flags.

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What an eclipse looks like from space - Like an ominous dark cloud, the moon's shadow hangs over the United States.

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The real 'Baby Driver' - Part of the magic of the film was that it was nearly all real driving—but Ansel Elgort wasn't doing it. A stunt driver controlled the car from a pod on top while the stars filmed inside!

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The unseen fandom of 'My Little Pony' -

Though the show is targeted at young girls, around 10,000 men aged 18-30 gather annually at BronyCon to dress up as their favorite characters and embrace a culture of extreme friendliness and acceptance.

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The actual light of a lighthouse - The Fresnel lens is most commonly used in lighthouses since it can capture more oblique light and allow it to be visible over greater distances.

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Aurora from above - The aurora are breathtaking cosmic light displays of charged particles interacting with the magnetic field that surrounds it, and here they dance simultaneously around both of Earth's polar regions.

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Aurora of different planets - Those high-energy particles can also be admired on Jupiter!

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Transparent skin - The glass frog is found in South American rain forests. Scientists can't figure out why they evolved to have a completely transparent skin underneath, but you can see all their organs!

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What a virus looks like -

The presence of numerous human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) virions are shown through an electron microscope.

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The largest toothed predators only have one row -

Cachalot whales don’t have teeth in their upper jaw, but rather sockets into which their lower teeth fit. While this may seem strange for eating, they mostly just slurp down giant squid.

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Agate shell - Agate is a kind of rock, but in this case the minerals grew in the voids of the shell space and eventually replaced the shell, producing this beautiful stone.

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Thousands of years in one photo - Ireland's Dun Briste is a 45-meter-tall (148 ft) sea stack that dates back thousands of years, which can be read in its stunning stripes. At the top you can find the remains of old houses!

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The end of an elephant tail - You could draw an elephant from memory, but most would forget this versatile part, which is used to communicate, to hold onto for guidance, and to keep away annoying flies.

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An albino raccoon - Raccoons are known for their black and white bandit look, but as albinos you're much more likely to spot them raiding your garbage cans!

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The dark side of the moon - As seen from one million miles away, the other side of the moon lacks the large, dark, basaltic plains that are so prominent and familiar on the Earth-facing side.

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Dinosaur footprints - Popularly found in Thailand and the United States, these theropod (three-toed) footprints are over 100 million years old. Many people forget dinosaurs existed outside of the fictional 'Jurassic Park!'

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A mall after Black Friday - Jokes aside, it turns out abandoned malls are incredibly creepy without the mass consumerism inside.

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