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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

What are the best photos which broke the internet?

The oldest gate still in use in Rome.

The Statue Of Unity in India is the largest statue in the world. It is 182m high and 240m high if we include its base.

This is the Tianjin Binhai Library. If you don't believe what you see, you are right. The books on the top shelves are not real, they are just stickers.

Salt mines in Iran.

This is the Queen Mary 2, a British ocean liner, and its captain.

What are some photos that you would like to see repeatedly?

Zhangjiajie National Park, China. All the sketches for the landscapes of Pandora for the movie ‘Avatar’ were made here.

2. Children ride on a boat on a crystal clear lake in Sabah, Malaysia.

3. Bamboo forest in Japan.

4. Baatara Gorge Waterfall, Tannourine, Lebanon.

5. Winter landscape in Grabovica, Serbia.

6.Spider-peacock (Maratus volans).

7. Son Doong Cave in Vietnam.

8. The Amazon rainforest

9. Tsingy de Bemaraha, the ’stone forest’ of Madagascar

10. Rock Islands, Palau

11. In the vicinity of Dallol Volcano, Ethiopia

12. Honokohau Falls are green waterfalls located on the island of Maui in the Hawaiian islands. This is the highest waterfall on the island and to get to it you need to take a helicopter tour as tourists cannot reach it by car or foot since the area is too difficult to travel. The shooting of the film Jurassic Park, which took place in this area, brought fame to Honokohau Falls because the waterfall made it into one of the scenes of the film and enamored many viewers with its beauty.

13. Tepui, Venezuela - The word ’Tepui’ means ’home of the gods’ in the language of the indigenous people of Gran Sabana where these incredible, ominous natural structures are located.

14. Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil - is a unique national park in Brazil located on the Atlantic coast of the Northern part of the country, in the state of Maranhão. This is one of the most mysterious places on the planet. During the rainy season, water accumulates between the dunes forming many lagoons that create a unique and beautiful landscape, which look like turquoise, green, and blue mirrors among the velvety white sands.

15. Pamukkale, Turkey - Hierapolis, also called Pamukkale springs (literally meaning “cotton castle” in Turkish) is a natural and cultural UNESCO World Heritage site in the province of Denizli in southwest Turkey. The Turkish name refers to the bright white limestone created and shaped by the springs for over thousands of years. These springs formed the amazing landscape of Pamukkale, appearing in the form of a cascade of terraced baths, decorated with white calcite stalactites.

16. Lake Abraham in Canada during winter time

If possible, please watch on desktop. Bigger the viewing screen, more you can appreciate the images.

Saturday, July 5, 2025

What are the most mysterious photos in history?

Pyramids in Bermuda triangle? Oceanographer, Dr. Meyer Verlag discovered pyramids located 2000 meters beneath the surface of Bermuda triangle using Sonar imaging.

Salamanca cathedral, a Spanish church whose construction began in 1513 had a carving of an astronaut on it. Weird enough to blow our mind!

A map of Antarctica from 16th century by Piri Reis was found in 1929. This map gave exact Antarctic outline and even the snow covered surface’s details. When further explored, it was found that the original mapmaker of the Antarctic map dates back to 4000 BC! What was the need of people to make map of Antarctic? If so, how have they done it with so accurate scales?

This picture was taken in 1930’s and this shows a man talking on a mobile phone. This is a mysterious thing.

Found in the sunken wreckage of a Greek cargo ship that is at least 2,000 years old, the circular bronze artifact contains a maze of interlocking gears. Originally thought to be a kind of navigational astrolabe, archaeologists continue to uncover its uses and now know that it was, at the very least, a highly complicated astronomical calendar. It is still the most sophisticated device ever found from that period.

(Source: The 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth)

The sailing stones of Death valley, USA. These stones move once in one or two years and make the tracks visible on the smooth valley. The mystery is they move without human or animal intervention.

Voyich Manuscript is a mysterious book found in the 20th century by a bookseller which contains scripts that no human could read. These scripts have unusual language with illustrated range of images and zodiac signs. The book, which is currently housed at Yale University's dates back some 600 years and was likely written in Central Europe. Its code is yet to be cracked.