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It's Hard to Believe These Images are Real

It is said that “A picture is worth a thousand words” and such a saying holds water most of the time, but some pictures are even more powerful than others. Many artists resort to using special lenses and even manipulating the pictures with computer programs such as Photoshop, but this collection of 40+ images is 100% real... and truly magnificent.
1. Remains of a shrine after a volcanic eruption (Japan)
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2. Good Vibrations Storage Unit by Ferruccio Laviani
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3. Every year, when the snow melts, this "man" appears
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4. Lucid Stead (California, USA) 
(Specially constructed mirror house)
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5. Lake Choahu (China)
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6. Amazing pavement art
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7. When taking the escalator seems like a bad idea...
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8. Perfect circles?
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Not really...
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9. Designer bananas, I guess that's a thing now...
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10. Sometimes, you just want your house to stand out...
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11. A lone Hibiscus blossoming after a volcanic eruption
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12. A montain palace top of a building (Beijing, China)
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13. This is not the window from an underwater observatory
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14. A selective paint job
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15. The ceiling of the Sagrada Familia Basilica (Bacelona, Spain)
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16. Extreme close-up of an oil painting
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17. Under all of that fur, there's a bunny...
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18. Ukranian daredevil "Mustang Wanted"
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19. Terraced rice paddies (India)
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20. A yacht vacation for seasick people (South Korea)
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21. A polka-dot fabric or white bottle-caps?
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22. A "Wave Cloud" hits the Florida coast (USA)
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23. Matthias "Hellboy" Schlitte - arm wrestling champion
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24. An Airbus 380 crossing the German Autobahn
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25. A steel-frame made to look like a Subaru Impreza (UK)
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26. A giant dust storm hitting the ocean (Australia)
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27. Digital projections of Cambodian divine figures
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28. The Sea World rollercoaster after hurricane Sandy(NY,USA)
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29. Magical underwater moment
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30. A globe, caught in a drop of water
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31. Now I've seen everything...
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32. Mathieu Valbuena (5'4), dwarfed by Marouane Fellaini
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33. A sculpture made to look like an 8-bit computer image
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34. An 8-bit Metroid cosplay in a comics convention
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35. Lego World in the snow
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36. He's not a vampire, it's just very cold outside...
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37. 1920's Missus Clause, come to life (more or less)
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38. The result of 3ft high flood of industrial waste (Hungary)
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39. A "Hat Cloud"
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40. Don't worry, the universe isn't broken
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41. The AquaDom (Berlin, Germany)
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42. The San Boldo Pass (Italy)
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43. "Panic Room" by grafitti artist Tilt (Marsielle, France)
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44. When you shoot all your fireworks at once (San Diego, USA)
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 Simone M.