Amazingly, we have more detailed maps of the surface of Mars than we do of the Earth’s oceans. There are many things humanity has looked for under the surface, like pirates’ treasure or the lost city of Atlantis. Brandi Mueller found something on a dive in the Pacific that was so surprising, it caused controversy in America.

Brandi Mueller is an accomplished marine adventurer and explorer. She’s been scuba diving since she was 15, and has been teaching others the art of diving for over ten years. Along with that, she is a boat captain. Most importantly, she is a photojournalist, who takes underwater pictures that illuminate the unknown world of the oceans, where it’s estimated most of life on earth exists. She’s been to the waters off the coasts of 50 countries, but what she saw in the Marshall Islands was unique- even to her.

Underwater photography is one of the hardest versions of the art, as there are so many hurdles to achieving a good picture. But, the pictures that come out are so beautiful, it’s worth it. Brandi learned that lighting underwater is very hard, as the sun’s light doesn’t penetrate to deep depths. So she learned to use flash correctly, but even then, she got backscatter from reflections off plankton. Even with all her training, she’d never quite taken pictures like the ones she took in the Pacific in 2015.

The colorful photographs that Brandi took have won her multiple awards, including accolades from National Geographic and from The Smithsonian. Along with her adventurous spirit and aesthetic eye, she also knows exactly what she’s looking at. She has a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in tropical medicine. We were lucky it was her who discovered the site near the Marshall Islands and not someone who would have jumped to conclusions about what he or she was seeing.

Although most people have never heard of the Marshall Islands, it’s very tied to America- they use the US dollar, and is in “free association” with the United States. Geographically, it’s a tiny group of islands in the Pacific near the equator. It’s home to about 50,000 people, who speak Marshallese and English. The indigenous islanders used to build charts made of sticks to navigate the ocean. It’s an interesting blend of indigenous and American culture. Mueller went there to photograph the natural beauty of the remote location.

The Marshall Islands are made up of atolls, which are circular structures of coral that surround a lagoon. The area has much natural beauty- a perfect place for Brandi to explore. There is a government-protected shark sanctuary in the area spanning over 750,000 square miles, which protects the 22 different kinds of Marshallese sharks. Three-hundred different species of fish inhabit the island area. The coral reefs there are also relatively untouched; they did not get bleached, unlike other reefs.

Scuba is actually an acronym that stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. It’s basically the gas tank that helps Brandi breathe underwater. Before any underwater breathing technology was available, people simply had to hold their breath. The world record is over 11 minutes! The one thing to be careful of when diving is the bends, which is a sickness that divers get when rising too quickly. Brandi ventured out one day into the water near the Pacific, with her scuba and camera gear.

The first stop on the tour was the waters surrounding the Kwajalein Atoll, or as it’s known in short, Kwaj. Brandi took pictures of beautiful animals, like parrotfish, wire coral shrimp, and other forms of life like bubble coral. As she swam around with her flashlights and gear, she couldn’t believe the marvelous colors. On land, she had met a lot of the locals, including a man who shredded on the guitar. But nothing beat the wonder she felt underwater. She swam towards something she couldn’t quite make out.

As Brandi swam closer to the mystery object, she readied her camera. She could hear herself breathing through the scuba gear, excited for this new find. However, when she got close, it wasn’t a fish at all. She looked, feeling disappointed, at what looked like something man-made. Quietly, with her goggles fogging with anger, she asked herself how humans could be so careless to litter in the ocean. As she re-focused on the moment, she noticed another glimmer in the distance, and decided to swim towards it.

As Brandi swam along to the mystery object, she thought about the pollution in the ocean. There had been too many oil spills and algal blooms caused by humankind. Slowly but surely, it seemed that there was more human-made debris surrounding her. What was happening? Did a boat tip over? It didn’t make any sense, Brandi thought, as this area was supposed to be protected, and so far from the big corporations of the mainland. When she came over a ridge, she finally understood.

She couldn’t believe it. The unmistakable silhouette of an airplane. No chance it could be a funnily shaped coral reef. In total shock, she flew to the small plane, which looked like it could hold one or two people maximum. The surface was decorated with pieces of coral and seaweed; fish swam in and out of the crevasses of the aircraft. In disbelief, she shone her flashlights all over and examined the seaweed-covered gauges. Another shiny glint caught her eye, and she gasped through the scuba gear.

There were hundreds of them. Brandi’s heart was racing. Hundreds of these small planes, which looked, upon closer inspection, like warplanes, littered the ocean floor, about 130 feet under the water. They were in every which orientation, including vertical, looking like they were about to crash into the ground. What were these planes? Were they American made? Why were they here? Brandi was in total awe of what she was seeing, but at the same time, was excited to get back on land to do some research on these planes.

Back on land, Brandi sat down to do some research. During World War II, the US and allies had fought Japan in the Pacific. The allies used a strategy called “island hopping” to make their way to Japan. Were the planes American or Japanese? She figured out from her pictures that the planes down there were allied forces planes. From the markings on the planes and their shapes, she was able to figure out they were Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, TBF/TBM Avengers, and F4U Corsair series planes.

During World War II, the Marshall Islands were fought over in operations codenamed “Flintlock” and “Catchpole.” The Japanese Empire put up defenses like pillboxes, but the US troops use of the Air Force to bombard their bases and the shelling of the island by the Navy made it relatively easy for the US to overtake the islands. One battle had ten times as many Japanese casualties as American. Even though the Japanese had strengthened the islands for 20 years, in 20 days, the US armed forces were in control.

Something also confusing to Brandi was that after World War II, The Marshall Island’s Bikini Atoll was used to test nuclear bombs. During the Cold War, America was trying to build more bombs than the Soviet Union, and detonated 23 of them in the Marshall Islands. One, Castle Bravo, was way bigger than expected, and residents couldn’t go back to their homes because of radioactivity. Were planes involved in the tests? Perhaps, but these small planes probably couldn’t carry bombs. These sunken planes were probably not related, she thought.

Something was off about these planes, so she decided to try and figure it out. She sat on a small boat, in her wetsuit, with her goggles on her forehead, deep in thought. The sound of the motor faded to the background. At the dive site, she perched herself on the edge of the boat, and leaned backwards until she splashed underwater. All she could hear now was her own breathing. As she swam closer to the field of planes, she took notice of a couple of things.

Brandi was not an amateur- she has explored the waters of over 50 countries. The planes gave her a surreal feeling, as they were in the undulating deep blue of the ocean rather than the crisp blue of the sky, soaring above the clouds. Some were covered with sand on the ocean floor, and looked almost like a shark, but with the tail fin sticking out of the sand rather than the water. She thought back to her other explorations. She had seen something like this before.

Brandi had seen ships sunken in the same Atoll, and she thought about what she saw there. Ships- both shipping and military vessels- had been damaged heavily by US air strikes, leading to the demise of the Japanese-made ships. Now, nature has taken to using these wrecks as homes. On Asakaze Maru, one of the most well-known wrecks, a green sea turtle has made itself a home in the kingposts. Another ship, the Akibasan Maru now hosts a school of barracuda.

The Akibasan Maru, beyond the ray-finned fish inside, has scars from being directly struck by fire and sunk in minutes. Brandi examined the holes, and moved on to swim to the Asakazi Maru, a ship that was so wrecked by US gunfire that it is almost just a mound of metal. Inside the ships, there are bottles of sake that must have been saved for the Japanese victory over the Americans that never came. Suddenly, in a eureka moment, she understood what was off about the planes!

Brandi finally understood her gut feeling about the planes. They were all basically intact! Yes, she thought, a bit of the scaffolding underneath the metal was showing, but that must have been from strong ocean currents. The planes had no bullet holes, no twisted metal from a hot hail of bullets, and no deformed fuselages. The planes were basically intact. How did they fall out of the sky? How did the Japanese manage to hit these American-made planes and leave no trace?

Another weird thing Brandi just realized as she treaded water: there are no remains of soldiers in the planes. There weren’t any skeletons, or even loose bones of the pilots. Although she didn’t expect it to be like the movies, where a skeleton of a fully dressed pirate, eyepatch and all, cradling a treasure chest under the water, she expected something. Maybe the many sharks in the area ate the pilots, but still, bones would have been left behind. She headed to land with answers, but also more questions.

That evening, Brandi sat at her laptop uploading the pictures from that day. She organized the pictures, thinking long and hard about why the planes were in such pristine condition. She wondered about the fate of the poor souls who died in the battles on the Marshall Islands. Where were these heroic pilots? Looking online for some information about World War II, she got to some interesting passages about the Pacific Theatre and the end of the war. What she read answered her question.

Feeling like she was back in graduate school, Brandi read about the end of the war. The Japanese leader, Emperor Hirohito got on the radio to deliver the now famous Jewel Voice Broadcast, which was the declaration of surrender of the Japanese to the Allied Forces. The US celebrated victory as treaties were signed. The troops were on their way home. But before they left, they started something called Operation Rollup. Brandi leaned in closer to her computer, as this looked like it would give some insight.

Operation Rollup was the Navy’s way to trying to deal with all the war vehicles like tanks, planes, and jeeps that were brought to remote islands in the Pacific Ocean. How would they get them back home? Surprisingly, the strategy sometimes was to simply dump the tanks and planes into the Pacific, due to the high cost of shipping it all back! This was the reason that the planes were in such good shape- they were never used! The Japanese never shot them down. It also happened in Vanuatu.

During World War II, the Navy was also present in Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific near Fiji. After the war, the Navy took a ramp, and simply drove jeeps, forklifts, and other vehicles directly into the ocean. The coral-covered metal heap is now called Million Dollar Point, for the huge amount of waste that must have resulted. The local people thought that the Americans had lost their minds when they saw them driving their cars directly into the abyss of the water.

Brandi was annoyed with the waste: “[the planes] should have flown more, lived longer, but they were sunk in perfect condition.” They could have used the vehicles or at least sold the pieces for scrap metal. After all, the Marshall Islands is a poor area- they would not survive without US aid. In fact, one of their biggest tuna factories closed in 2005. Brandi read though, that part of Operation Rollup actually did call for saving some of the vehicles, and they were used later in the Korean War.

Wars can be extremely costly. The United States spent $341 billion in 1945, which is equivalent to more than 10 times that in today’s dollars! Dumping the planes in the ocean made those tax dollars spent even less worth it. For comparison’s sake, the 2003-2010 War in Iraq cost $1 trillion. Now, the main way the dumped vehicles are used is as tourist attractions for scuba divers. Since Brandi publicized the “Airplane Graveyard,” many have visited. But there are more valuable things underwater than the remnants of war.

Three-hundred long years ago, a Spanish ship, a type of sail-driven ship called a Galleon, was sailing near Colombia with a booty of gold, silver, and precious stones. The ship was lost, and hope of finding it had almost been totally extinguished. In 2015, the government of Colombia said they found the wreckage of the ship, which contains an estimated $17 billion of treasure! However, the government is currently in a dispute with an American company who says they found the gold first.

Today, pirates generally don’t have eye patches and parrots on their shoulders, but piracy itself is alive and well. In recent years, pirates off the coast of Somalia have attacked cruise ships, shooting the passenger ships with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. These ships are not carrying treasure. So what the pirates do is hold the ships hostage, and demand ransom money. The ships hire private security companies to spray the pirates with water cannons, sound cannons, or even live ammunition.

After a whirlwind of surreal beauty, confusion, and finally, answers, Brandi remarked that overall, “seeing planes underwater is strange, planes don’t belong in the water, they belong in the sky, so it [felt] weird to dive on them … these planes didn’t sink because of the war [so] they are special.” She sat on the bouncing, humming motorboat, covered in a warm towel, as it headed back to shore. She looked out wistfully over the sea, wondering what other treasures she could photograph in the Earth’s final frontier.

Upon first glance it seems obvious what’s going on here, several bowls and a pitcher were left in plastic wrap. But the reality is actually much more surprising. The truth is that what’s covering these plastic objects isn’t plastic wrap, or shrink-wrap as it’s sometimes called, but rather ice. It’s unclear what caused the ice to form this shape, but it can be inferred that the water that froze is very clear and very pure to have this sheen.

Taking a peek at a photo like this, it looks like something out of a video game, or a Lego set that someone had delicately placed to have even spacing from one another. In fact, this is an actual neighborhood where real people live. It’s called the San Buenaventura Complex in Mexico. Don’t believe us? It’s clear from the upper right-hand corner that the trees there are very much real. Only the neighborhood itself looks like something computer-generated.

This looks like something out of a movie about dinosaurs. What looks like a massive prehistoric creature making its way through a forest is actually a type of goose walking in very small shrubs. However, many scientists do believe that birds evolved directly from dinosaurs. So in a way this technically is a dinosaur that’s making its way through a forest, this dinosaur has just evolved in order to allow it to live more easily in the world today.

When we first looked at this photo we thought it was an image of a beautiful tropical beach somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. To our surprise, this is actually a picture of a geyser from a national park in Iceland. It’s almost hard to believe that this isn’t an aerial view of a beach. The only clue that it isn’t is the line of green algae that is growing where the water meets the shore, more indicative of a geyser.

Imagine stepping outside and finding this on your front lawn. We’d likely think that it was the hand of some horrifying monster that had somehow been left right before our very eyes. There’s no doubt that the white part of this looks like claws, the likes of which could do some serious damage if they were ever able to wrap around its prey. What this actually is though is a horseradish, that has somehow sprouted several heads at one time.

Just looking at this photo makes us want to sink our teeth into a delicious chocolate donut. Although we can tell from the photo on the right that there is something off about this particular donut. Either this donut is unusually big, or this guy is shopping at a bakery that caters primarily to giants. The truth is that neither is correct, and what this actually is is a strange mushroom whose colors somehow look like a tasty doughy treat.

It’s difficult to surmise what’s going on here without actually being told what’s happening. When we first saw it, we thought that someone had dropped a bunch of feathers in front of the camera. The person who posted it wrote that they thought it looked as if a flock of birds were going after his garage door. What it actually is is the ice that has frozen on this person’s car windshield, giving it a strange yet beautiful dancing effect.

This incredibly picturesque moment looks too perfect to be real life. But, like many things, the truth can be more surprising than the story itself. Even though this looks like someone hung a lovely photo on their wall, it’s actually a real-life window from the inside of a barn. It’s unclear where this barn is, but it certainly is in a lovely part of the world. Imagine waking up every morning and getting to see this unbelievably gorgeous view.

Many consider Yosemite National Park in California to be one of the most beautiful places in the world. Containing huge granite mountains, lush towering forests, and picturesque rivers and lakes, the place has long been a draw for adventurers, tourists, and many others who eagerly flock to experience its beauty. This moment, captured on camera, shows how there’s always something new to discover at this place, as this person managed to capture what looked like a stream becoming a waterfall.

Here’s something that’s so spooky that even though the photo was taken in the day time it still manages to send shivers down our spine. The image in the foreground of the photo is clearly a log, but upon second glance, it seems to also have a face, which appears to be wearing a hood. It’s a terrifying image, but imagine if it were night time and you shone a flashlight on this thing – we’d probably run away while screaming.

How could it be possible that this photo wasn’t taken during the day? One look and it would seem obvious that whoever took this photo, took it during daylight or at the very least evening hours. In fact, this photo really was taken at night. The photographer and their friend had gone outside to watch the lightning storm taking place in front of their house and happened to take a photo just as a bolt of lightning happened to strike.

Here’s a photo that would give anyone scared of the ocean even more nightmares. Looking at this photo it seems as though we’re seeing some monstrous fish about to eat the diver for nothing more than a midday snack. Fear not though, it’s not a giant man-eating fish, but rather the bow of a sunken ship being explored by a pair of divers. What’s grown on this ship is algae, meaning that in a way it is actually alive.

This photo manages to be both beautiful and strange at the same time. Two skyscrapers next to each other manage to give the impression that they are sharing energy with one another when in reality it probably has something to do with the lens of the photographer. It could also be that the building on the right is stealing all the energy from the building on the left, no doubt in order to get one step closer to world domination.

We’ve all heard of food trucks but few of us have seen a pastry truck with so many beautiful baked goods being displayed on shelves from the inside of a vehicle. What’s actually going on here is that the reflection on the glass of this coffee shop’s pastry section gives this truck the unusual appearance of having various pies and other treats for sale from its trunk. While it’s not real, it is giving us a pretty good business idea.

The first time we saw this photo our jaws dropped in horror. It looked like someone’s family pet had died and they’d decided to mount its head on their walls! What kind of people would do such a thing to a poor puppy? In fact, the truth is much less sad than that, and actually rather cute. This dog is actually sitting on a beige carpet and just happens to be looking up as it patiently waits for a treat.

Don’t say that we didn’t warn you if you think about walking along this pathway. Why might that be the case you ask? Well, this isn’t actually a pathway, what this is is a stream that has had so many leaves fall on it that it looks like solid ground. Hopefully, in real life, this stream is actually moving so that people can clearly see that it’s liquid. If not, then hopefully they have a towel waiting in their cars.

This seems like one of those photos that the government might try and confiscate so that they can tell everyone that it was a hoax. What appears to be Godzilla smashing his way through this town is actually a lizard that is crawling on someone’s windshield as they drive along the road. But with the clouds framing him in the background, this is one perfect shot. But we hope they stopped and helped this poor lizard off of their windshield.

It’s amazing how in nature, things can form such beautiful and familiar shapes all on their own. This rock, frozen in ice, was next to a river of running water, which allowed the ice to be slowly eroded and form into lovely shapes. This one in particular looks almost exactly like a human heart and, based on experts, seems to be about the same size as one more or less. Of course, it could always belong to something else…

Anyone who’s been camping understands the importance of bringing plenty of firewood. Not only because watching the fire dance around is something that is weirdly mesmerizing for people to look at, but it’s an important source of warmth and how else are you going to make smores? The firewood here actually came from a pallet, and it has been burnt in such a way that it seems like part of it is a group of birds gazing at the fire.

Yet again we have what appears to be a scenic photo hanging on a wall. What this actually is, is a window, and the person standing on the other side is taking a picture of what is actually happening outside. Unlike the previous photo, we know that this is in the Australian Outback, although exactly where in the Outback is a bit of a mystery. It was taken from inside an old ruin though, one that had a spectacular view.

This looks like something that would appear in a J.R.R. Tolkien book – some mythical or magical creature that just burst out of the ground. What gives it an even eerier effect is that the forest that it’s in is completely fogged in. Unfortunately for fans of the fantasy genre, this isn’t some magical creature emerging out of the forest floor. It’s just some grass growing over a stump. Something to watch out for on the Faroe Islands.

What looks like it could be something like concrete or cement under a microscope is actually something much bigger. Rather than being a microscopic look at the world, this strange grey pattern is actually an aerial view of New Delhi, the capital of India. Although from this view, New Delhi seems like a very unattractive city, it is actually home to some of the most beautiful buildings in the entire country including the Lotus Temple, India Gate, and Humayun’s Tomb.

It was popular for a lot of people as children to lay on their backs outside and look at clouds passing by, remarking on how many of them took the shapes of everyday objects. Heck, with how busy the world is today that’s something we’d all love to be doing now! Few clouds ever seemed to take on as much detail and precise shape as this one right here, which looks like a wave that’s about to crash on those mountains.

How crazy does this photo look right here? The light inside the clouds has formed an almost perfect circle with an exact geometric pattern underneath, giving us the impression that we’re looking at a massive UFO coming in for a landing. Unfortunately, meteorologists decided to burst our collective bubble by saying that what’s happening here is light reflecting off the clouds to create the shape of an alien spacecraft. Although with recent Pentagon admissions about UAVs, who knows what’s happening?

Looking into this rock it almost seems like it’s a tiny, frozen slice of the ocean. As much as we’d like to wish that was true, it’s actually a gem called an Ethiopian Welo Opal new gem. Named after the Wollo Province in northern Ethiopia, these beautiful gems have made Ethiopian opals some of the most desired in the world. The strange light patterns within the opals are just absorbed water particles, with this one having a uniquely beautiful design.

If anyone has ever wondered what a sculpture of a US Navy ship might look like, here it is. Clearly it has become something of a tourist attraction as these two kayakers have stopped to take a picture of this rock shaped ship. What’s remarkable as well is that the rock ship here seems to have been built to scale similar to that of a ship. This shows that whatever we can do, nature can do just as better than people.

This was taken by a tourist in Tokyo who, when looking out their window, might have thought that they were so high up in the air that they were getting an aerial view of the sprawling city. The truth is that this person was much closer to the ground, and the city that they thought they were looking at was actually a cemetery. The tombstones are differently shaped than what we’re used to in the States, and decorated with plants.

What appears to be nothing more than another landscape painting, is actually something much more authentic. This image is actually a photograph taken from the Namib-Naukluft National Park on the west coast of Namibia between the Atlantic Ocean and the edge of what is called the Great Escarpment. Boasting a diverse array of plant and animal life, this park is considered to be the largest in Africa and the fourth largest in the world, making it an obvious tourist destination.

If it seemed to you like this is a bad computer rendering of the real world, think again. This is a real-life photo of a parking lot in Hawaii on a day when objects show no shadows. The reason for this is because, at a certain time of the day twice a year, the sun is directly overhead. Scientists even have a name for days like these: they’re called zero shadow days, and it’s something that’s remarkable to see.

Upon first glance, you might be tempted to believe that whoever made this bag knows a thing or two about working with needle and thread. Or, more likely, there are two cats sitting really still in the bag. We can confirm that the reality is, in fact, the latter. The person who posted this photo on Reddit wrote the following caption: “Our two cats look like they were cross-stitched onto the carrier.” Sometimes, something is so good to be true, because it is.

Looking at this image reminds us of going to an astronomy museum to look at the incredible nebula floating in space. A nebula is the resulting cloud of dust and chemicals that are left after a star explodes. But this isn’t that. Rather, if you look at the bottom of the picture it’s obvious that there’s smoke coming out of something burning. This was actually a firework display that was captured on film at one perfect moment.

If you thought that the wave in the sky was remarkable, then this photo is truly something out of this world. When we first saw this photo we were convinced that it had to have been photoshopped. After all, when has anyone seen clouds looking so perfectly like an ocean on a stormy night? The truth is that it just happens to be coincidental, this is an actual cloud formation looking like some moving liquid.

Here’s something that looks too incredible to be real. But if there’s one thing that we’ve learned from all these photos is that you don’t need human beings in order to make something beautiful. Nature can do all of that all by itself. Here is a perfect example of that, sitting just above this forest is the perfect combination of cloud and light. These clouds look like they could either be rolling sand dunes, or ocean waves that are calmly flowing.

Upon first glance, this looks like some sort of exotic caterpillar that is slowly making its way along this stick. But once you take a moment and zoom out, it’s obvious that this isn’t one creature, but nine! Rather than being bugs, it’s nine birds that are all sitting on this branch incredibly close to one another. Maybe for warmth, maybe for comfort. Either way, together they all manage to look like something much bigger than just one of them.

Looking at this, we think everyone could agree that it looks like a slice of the sky that has fallen to the Earth. All the times anyone has wished they could capture a slice of the sunset and take it home with them, this is their chance. That’s not what it really is though, what it is is yet another incredible opal, which has soaked in water. That water is able to reflect light in various colors creating incredible images.

If you haven’t caught on by now, every time something on this list looks like an aerial shot of what should be something massive – it’s not. This picture is no different. It looks like we’re looking down at a tropical island from an airplane or helicopter, but the truth is far more surprising. In reality, this is nothing more than a small, mossy rock sitting in the middle of a frozen lake giving the impressions of waves splashing onshore.

If we were walking by this house one morning and saw this through the second story window we would probably panic and immediately call the fire department. So why, after they got there, would the fire department be so annoyed that we called them? The reason is that this isn’t actually a fire. Instead, it’s the reflection of the sun rising from behind a tree. We guess next time we should’ve stopped and double-checked if there was any smoke rising.

Before the concept of Godzilla ever came to fruition filmmakers had another creature in mind, the giant lobster who would descend from space in order to take over the world. Okay so none of that is actually true, but that was definitely the first thing that came to our minds when we first saw this photo. In reality, this is nothing more than a lobster sitting at the bottom of a bucket. But that reflection does look like North America.

How strange would it be if this anteater happened to find a barrel of some radioactive fluid, stuck his front leg in, and by the time he pulled it out it had transformed into a panda? We’re guessing that’s not what happened although if someone wants to make a comic book about that please contact us. We’d love to talk. The reality is sadly much more boring. It’s front leg just has a strange hair pattern which completely surprised us.

It’s photos like these that make people, in part at least, doubt UFOs. Not because they don’t look real. This one looks just like a UFO about to beam somebody up to their alien spacecraft, but because at the end of the day most of them are easily explainable. In this particular instance, it’s a car door that has tricked our eyes into thinking we’re looking at a UFO. Between the rain and the reflection, it makes for a convincing image.

Just looking at this blue curved image right here, it does seem as if we are getting a satellite’s view of the Earth from above. But upon second glance, we can see that above the curve, there’s a brick wall so clearly we’re not looking at the Earth. What we’re actually looking at is the roof of a car that has frost on it. The frost gives the “water” that uneven look and it’s completed by the ray of light.

Looking at this picture, we’re reminded of all those pictures of apartments that we’ve seen that we can’t afford. The architecture seems so unique, modern, and well put together that we can easily imagine one of our favorite celebrities purchasing a place like this in order to host fancy cocktail parties. What it actually is is the inside of a guitar, and upon second glance we can see the guitar strings above the opening. Not sure we can afford it though.

This is a terrifying image and something that looks like it belongs in a Gothic museum somewhere in Europe. Yet once again, mother nature is able to create something of stunning beauty that human beings can only marvel at. This is actually a real life, active lava pit, and the strange-looking images that look like human bodies are thankfully not actually that. It’s cooled lava that was stopped in its place while trying to flow into the pit.

This is a lovely and serene image and looks like a picture of the night sky. If you wanted to know what it actually is, you’d have to point your camera not up, but down. This is actually the reflection of a puddle, which has managed to look like a night sky. It seems like pollen or some other plant residue has fallen onto the puddle which gives us the impression we’re looking at billions of stars in the sky.

Currently, scientists are scouring our galaxy to find any planets that are “Earth-like” in nature. This means the same size, a solid planet, that’s in a star system similar to our own and just at the right spot for water to exist in its liquid form. This looks like it could be a list of those discovered planets. However, it’s actually the bottoms of frying pans that have been used and burnt, creating these incredibly beautiful images.