THE BIZARRE, THE BEAUTIFUL...

Each one is amazing & rare phenomenon.

Blue ice...the result of snow falling on a glacier becoming compressed.  

Not a branch. It's a mammoth tusk unearthed from the ground. 

Not Legoland. It's a housing complex in San Buenaventura, Mexico.

This

looks like a piece of art, but it’s a honeycomb.

An infrared photo of a garden.  This is what a bee sees.

This giant cactus, Pachycereus weberi, is native to Mexico and southern Arizona.

This is what smoking does to your curtains. 

  

The stunning blue-ringed octopus, one of the most dangerous marine animals.

The Iraqi Marshes: an aquatic landscape in adesert climate.

A 27,000-year-old hand print 
discovered on the rocks of an Indonesian island.

Looks like a tattoo?
They're scars left after being struck bylightning.

Bangledeshians get creative:
a floating bridge made out of dinghies.

What a difference a century makes: The daily commute, then and now.

Lavender and wheat fields grow side by side in perfect harmony.

This is the rarely seen ili pika (Ochotona iliensis), a shy mountain animal from China that was recently spotted for the first time in 20 years.

A rare sight: a sunset and eclipse at the same time.

An ice cave formed by volcanic hot springs.

Stuyvesant Town is Manhattan's largestapartment complex.

Not something you see every day:  lightningand a rainbow.

A cloud formation above Lake Michigan in Holland State Park, Michigan.

A bird’s-eye view of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

To get an idea of how large the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is, it has been rendered next to a city.