As the world keeps spinning, more and more exciting occurrences can be found. It never ceases to amaze me how many incredible discoveries and sights the world offers us on a daily basis. Here are 23 photos that lend support to the fact that Earth, with its inhabitants, can be a fascinating place!
Blue ice, the stunning result of snow falling on a glacier and becoming compressed.
That’s not a branch: a mammoth tusk is unearthed from the ground.
Not Legoland: 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 how 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 the most dangerous marine animals out there.
A homeless man sets up a temporary abode in Los Angeles.
The Iraqi Marshes: an aquatic landscape in a desert climate.
A 27,000 year-old hand print, discovered on the rocks of an Indonesian island.
It looks like a tattoo. But it's actually scars left after being struck by lightning.
Like ebony and ivory, lavender and wheat fields grow side by side in perfect harmony.
This is the barely-seen ili pika, a shy mountain animal from China, who was recently spotted for the first time in 20 years.
An ice cave formed by volcanic hot springs.
Stuyvesant Town is Manhattan's largest apartment complex.
Not something you see everyday: lightning and a rainbow.
A cloud formation above the sea, in Holland State Park, Michigan.
A bird’s eye view of Dubai.
To get an idea of how large the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is, it has been rendered next to a city.
