Jaw-Dropping Photos: The Most Beautiful Places and Moments Captured on Camera

#1 Edith Steiner, a Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust, and John Mackay, the Scottish soldier who saved her, celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary this year.

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#2 The Great Eared Nightjar is a bird that resembles a dragon.

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#3 In 1960, David Latimer planted a tiny garden inside a large glass bottle and sealed it shut.

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#4 This is a pencil drawing by 16-year-old artist Shania McDonagh!

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#5 This is the most beautiful corn on the planet. It’s a Native American variety called ‘Glass Gem Corn,’ and yes, it really does grow like that.

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#6 Unexpected photobomb.

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#7 It took me a second to see it. Mother Nature is amazing.

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#8 A wheat field next to a lavender field.

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#9 If you are having a bad day, just take a second to look at my silly crested duck, Gertrude, and she will put a smile on your face! Yes, that is her real hair.

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#10 A seascape in the sky.

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#11 An incredible photo capturing a woodpecker flying with a weasel on its back.

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#12 Mongolian archer woman.

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#13 What an amazing photo! The blue bird is next to the sculpture bird, looking at San Francisco as intently as if he actually heard it.

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#14 Upside-down fig tree in Bacoli, Italy.

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#15 Alley of the Baobabs in Madagascar.

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#16 Zakynthos, Greece: Where Poseidon takes his walks.

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#17 Imagine finding this on your front porch in the morning.

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#18 The water in both tanks is from the same time and place. The tank on the right has oysters.

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#19 This library is 114 years old.

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#20 The inside of a gypsy’s caravan carriage from the 1800s.

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#21 Emerald sand dunes in Brazil.

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#22 A Western Australian town installed nets on the outlet of drainage pipes, preventing solid waste and gross pollutants from leaving the sewers.

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#23 Rare giant amethyst geode from Uruguay.

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#24 The skeleton of a pufferfish. When you think nature cannot amaze you anymore.

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#25 When you accidentally find your doppelganger in a painting made over 100 years ago.

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#26 This is a flying lizard found in Southeast Asia.

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#27 Architecturally unbelievable: Sumela Monastery in Trabzon Province, Black Sea Region of Turkey.

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#28 Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana: 300-year-old oak trees.

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#29 A parachutist jumps with more than 100 million seeds in the Amazon.

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#30 This variety of orchids (Dracula simia) is amazing, as it looks like baby monkeys.

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#31 Ginormous octopus!

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#32 Indian flying fox and baby riding along. Photography by Hemanth Kumar.

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#33 The Blue Dragon River in Portugal, seen from the International Space Station.

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#34 Ice eggs: Thousands of ice balls covering a beach in Finland due to a phenomenon where ice is rolled over by water and wind.

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#35 A grape cluster formed by grape clusters. This cluster is called the Caleb Cluster.

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#36 Dolphin baby in the mother’s womb. How amazing is this?

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#37 The Prague Astronomical Clock (Prague Orloj): a medieval astronomical clock located in the capital city of Prague.

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#38 Earth’s Eye Lake, Croatia.

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#39 A natural beehive filled with honey glowing in the sunlight.

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#40 Devil’s Tower, Black Hills, Wyoming. Photo: Charles Ankrom.

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#41 Aboriginal elder, Australia.

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#42 This artist spent eight years creating this tree-chair using methods of gradual redirection of the branches, shaping the trees as they grow according to predetermined designs.

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#43 Dragon sculpture at the Town Hall in the northern part of Marienplatz in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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#44 A 16th-century Italian fireplace.

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#45 Tree burning from the inside after being struck by lightning.

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#46 The largest tree in the world.

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#47 Two rivers meet without mixing in Georgia.

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#48 An enchanting glasswork by René Jules Lalique, “Suzanne” 1925.

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#49 Queensland, Australia: Sailfish are considered the fastest fish in the sea, reaching top speeds of 70 miles per hour (112 km/h).

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#50 Middle House, Egypt (Clairo).

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#51 An unbelievably amazing shot of a storm: Supercell near Leoti, Kansas, USA. Photographer: @mar.

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#52 Traditional dress from the Sardinia region of Italy.

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#53 A 2,000-year-old Roman silver dagger discovered by an archaeology intern in 2019 in Germany, before and after nine months of restoration.

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#54 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States. Photographer: Brent Shavnore.

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#55 Tibetan man wearing Tibetan jewelry and ethnic clothes.

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#56 “Les Voyageurs” by Bruno Catalano.

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#57 The Romans invaded this sleepy little gorge along the River Trejo in the 1st century CE.

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#58 The 7ft-high Blade Angel is a sculpture made from 100,000 knives that have caused fatalities across the UK. Knives were collected from 43 police stations, creating a memorial dedicated to the victims.

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#59 Amazing ancient wonder: The Giant’s Causeway in Co Antrim consists of more than 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns formed when magma spurted through cracks in the Earth’s surface 60 million years ago.

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#60 The clearest image of Mars ever taken. Wow!

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#61 This tree decided to climb over the wall to explore the big wide world.

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#62 Artwork by Richard Oliver.

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#63 Dragon Eye, a metamorphic rock formation found in a stone mine in Lancashire, England.

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#64 Pallet treehouse.

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#65 Black Bull. Blackfoot. Early 1900s.

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#66 Amorphophallus titanium, one of the largest flowers in the world. It blooms once every 40 years, but only for 4 days!

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#67 Enormous bougainvillea swallowing a building.

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#68 An amazing mini island fort created in an old sunken ship with trees, Australia.

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#69 Black Sapphire grapes.

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#70 An 800-year-old oak tree called Majesty, or the Fredville Oak, located in Fredville Park, Nonington, Kent.

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#71 A frosted spiderweb.

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#72 Sigiriya or Sinhagiri is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka.

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#73 Ancient wooden church (built in 1655) on the site of the former village of Krasnaya Lyaga near Kargopol, North Russia.

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#74 The Wave in Arizona, USA.

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#75 Utroba Cave, Bulgaria.

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#76 Two seas meet but do not mix: Golf d’Alska.

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#77 Flamingos artwork at Tampa International Airport (Florida, USA).

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#78 Puya Raimondii, Queen of the Andes, blooms once every 80 years. It is the largest species of bromeliad, reaching up to 15 m (50 ft) in height and carrying 20,000 flowers.

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#79 Restaurant Okinawa, Japan.

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#80 The Canal of Corinth, Greece.

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#81 Every five years , Amsterdam welcomes scores of tall ships and hundreds of other historical ships from all over the world for the greatest nautical spectacle called Sail Amsterdam.

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#82 A gorgeous image from the sunken city of Heracleion near the coast of Alexandria, Egypt.

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#83 Montgomery Reef, off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia.

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#84 Known for his mind-bending installation art, Alex Chinneck has moved indoors for his latest art installation, tying a 450-year-old wood column into a knot.

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#85 Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Calling it a forest gave us the wrong impression.

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#86 It’s too gorgeous to eat…almost.

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#87 The richest tomb of the fifth millennium BC.

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#88 Reconstruction of a 3-year-old Neanderthal child based on the remains found at Roc de Marsal in 1961. Sculptor: Elisabeth Daynès.

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#89 A truly amazing photo! The RMS Queen Elizabeth pulling into New York with servicemen returning home after the end of World War II, 1945.

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#90 Stairs of the Varosa Dam, Portugal.

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#91 An amazing giant cactus in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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#92 American sculptor Christopher David White uses the power of illusion in his art. It’s hard to believe that his sculptures are made of clay, not wood, as they appear at first glance.

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#93 4,000 years of unimaginable beauty from Thira, perhaps one of the world’s oldest beauties in art: Minoan fresco recreation. Thira, also known as Santorini, Greece.

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#94 Africa’s Sahel region.

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#95 Amazing balancing of ancient stones at Brimham Rocks.

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#96 Renaissance period, 1560-1570: The extraordinary parade steel gilt burgonet chimera helmet created for the wedding of the Duke of Alba.

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#97 Machu Picchu Inca Path, Death Stairs, Peru.

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#98 An unusual naturally occurring “mushroom rock” (also called pedestal rock) in Tamanrasset, Saharan Desert, Algeria.

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#99 The beautiful Vettuvan Koil in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu is a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.

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#100 The Caryatids, Acropolis Athens.

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