18 Fascinating Photos That Deserve a Closer Look

[Nick Lee]

St. Peter’s baldachin, by sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the modern St. Peter’s Basilica. Saint Peter’s tomb lies directly below this structure.​

A portrait of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on her company’s website, c. 2008​

A5 Japanese Wagyu ribeye​

“He was a good boy, he really was”: Mother of 16-year-old Oregon school shooter breaks silence after tragedy​

Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth who could speak the Wukchumni language fluently, so at 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary, the first written record of the language in history, to save it from extinction.​

Andy Warhol was shot by a radical feminist in 1968. The bullet bounced around inside him striking his stomach, spleen, liver, esophagus & lungs.​

“Telescope ranches” in Texas. People pay to store $10K+ telescope rigs in the middle of nowhere to escape light pollution. The warehouse roofs roll off each night, and owners remote in from anywhere in the world​

In 2018, a customer secretly photographed Geoffrey Owens best known for playing Elvin on the Cosby Show working at a Trader Joe’s in Clifton, New Jersey, and the images were published online in an attempt to “job-shame” him. Instead, he was able to get more work as an actor because of it.​

One year of walking across China: Before and After​

Copper cable and a single optical fiber that replaced it with the same capacity​

These illustrated Christian Gospels have survived for roughly 1,500 years in an Ethiopian monastery​

EV Charger built into the curb (Düsseldorf)​

Modern day domesticated corn compared to its original wild non-domestic version​

Internet may be just a passing fad’ Article in Daily Mail, December 5, 2000​

In 1975, a hidden room beneath Florence’s Medici Chapels was discovered covered in sketches, some believed to be by Michelangelo​

Satellite images of Andes Mountain range, Chile​

Grocery prices in 2000​

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