25 Mind-Blowing Photos That Left Me Speechless the Moment I Saw Them

Some images have the power to stop you in your tracks, making you stare in awe, wonder, or even disbelief. Whether it’s a rare historical moment, a mind-bending optical illusion, or a glimpse into the incredible beauty of our world, these 25 fascinating pictures will leave you amazed. Get ready to see the world from a whole new perspective!

1. This is what a fish getting a CT scan looks like:

2. This is what a $100 bill looked like in 1977, 2003, and 2017:

3. Hedges can be absolutely massive:

4. This is what the painting directly across from the “Mona Lisa” looks like:

5. Australia lets its citizens know exactly how their tax dollars are spent:

6. Speaking of Australia, there’s a whole lot of nothing:

7. Over 2,000 years ago, a child living in ancient Rome made this footprint in a clay tile while it was drying:

8. This is what Bruce Lee’s workout routine was in 1965:

9. This is what the start of a river looks like:

10. This is what an x-ray of a six-fingered hand looks like:

11. This is what North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal, home to one of the world’s last uncontacted peoples, looks like from above:

12. This is what a tumbleweed looks like before, well, it tumbles:

13. This is what the “hand” of a manatee looks like:

14. There are a whole bunch of trees on Earth that were planted with seeds that flew to the moon on Apollo 14:

15. It cost just about $100 to give birth in 1956:

16. This glorious 1200 year old specimen is the biggest, best-preserved piece of human poop:

17. This is a hammer-headed bat, an absolutely enormous fruit bat with an average wingspan of over three feet:

18. Speaking of gigantic animals, check out the size of this here lobster claw:

19. This is what a condom from the 1700s looked like:

20. This is the executioner robe and axe of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the official executioner of the Papal States in the 1800s:

21. This is a display of ancient Egyptian furniture, from sometime around 1,500 BCE:

22. This is the Brewster armor suit, one of the first fully functional suits of body armor designed for World War I combat:

23. This exhibit shows what happens to marble over time if people are allowed to stick their grubby little paws all over it:

24. This is the check for $7.2 million, issued Aug. 1, 1868, that the US sent to Russia for the purchase of Alaska:

25. And, finally, bolts? Bolts can be absolutely gigantic: