19 Images That Defy Explanation, Explained

19 Images That Defy Explanation, Explained

Sometimes an image is so awesome to look at that we aren't interested in the story behind it. But then there are images like these -- compiled by our loyal readers -- where the story only enhances the surrealness. The most mind-blowing photo and fact are below, but first the runners-up ...

If the shadows in this photo look a bit too soft.. that's because it's actually a pencil drawing by Diego Fazio htoldeololdwatcomarinossuallosonloeall
CRACKEDGOM Inside an abandoned building in the ghost town of Kolmanskop Namibia site of a German diamond mine that closed in the 1950s
GRAGKEDo CONT Widespread. and prolonged llooding in Pakistan during 2010 drove millions of spiders into trees to spin their webs. Nould you walk this
CRACKEDcO CoN Taken from the Burj Khalifa, the tallest buidling in the world
CRACKEDCom on h The drawn was bacteria manipulation scene Living from Steinbach Diego protiens. Paul beach by San with Derived UC This dish Photo Tsie
F These columns of light are not the result of a beam from the ground below. They are caused by millions of low floating. horizontally oriented ice cr
CRACKED This isn't Photoshop, spaghetti, lightning, or a microscopic image. This js what you get when you take a black-and-white (film) camera to the
In 1990, Carl Sagan asked NASA to turn Voyager 1 around SO he could see what Earth looked like from the farthest distance yet observed, about 4 billio
CRACKED.COM The FIRE is made of LEGOs. Artist Cole Blag's piece 'The Burn' uses his first name as fuel for the plastic flames.
CRACKEDCO COM They decided to name it the monkey orchid
Under water crop circle found just off the coast of Amami Oshima, Japan by diver Yoji Ookata in 2012. It turns out that this formation was created b
QUICK QUESTION, WHY WALK ON COALS WHEN YOU COULD HOLD FLAMING ICE CUBES? METHANE HYDRATE A BUNCH OEMETHANE MOLECULES TRAPPED INSIDE ACAGE OF ICE SINCE
When is a sinkhole not a sinkhole? Unlike the natural geological phenomenon, this 100-foot deep, 66-foot wide hole that swallowed a clothing factory i
ORACKEDOOM CAUTION I! LASER SHARK A MARINE BIOLOGIST ATTACHED A 50-MILLIWATT GREEN LASER TO A LEMON SHARK OFF THE COAST OF THE BAHAMAS. HE SAID: IT W
This is just a close up shot of llama's CRACKED.COM a eye.
This is neither a tumor nor a rare mutation. This is a species known as the honeypot ant. They will drink as much nectar as their bodies can hold. at
The world's first walk-along roller coaster. Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth GRACKED COM Tiger E Turte (2011)
POPULAR SCIENCE FROM MAGAZINE MARCH 1938 Using the barrel for a horn, an Englishman can play bugle calls on a rifle. A trumpet mouthpiece is inserted
This is a tree It is still alive It was already 2000 years old when the book of Genesis was written CRACKEDCON

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