You’re about to view a list that includes drug kingpins, cats, historical oddities and weird nature. But while it seems like there’s no theme here, there actually is: everything you’re about to view is very rare indeed.
Frozen in time.
These are the contents of Abraham Lincoln’s pockets at the time he was assassinated more than a century and a half ago. I never knew he liked glasses so much.
I want to believe.
Most of us have seen a shooting star once or twice before, but this meteor over India is an absolute whopper. The green light it casts is super eerie.
Textured.
Anyone who’s flown cross-country has seen America’s vast flatlands from the air, but this is fairly unique. The way the snow has fallen on these fields makes them look three dimensional.
It’s missing something.
If this looks familiar, but you can’t quite place it, that’s probably because you’re used to seeing a bunch of faces up there. This is Mount Rushmore before it was carved.
What are the odds?
Lobsters can come in some interesting colors, including vivid blue. But this multi-colored lobster is on another level of rarity. There’s about a 1 in 50 million chance a lobster will be born this way.
We found Bigfoot.
It’s so hard to place what this animal actually is, aside from “nightmare beast”. It’s actually a bear that was born with a mutation causing it to have minimal fur.
With age comes wisdom.
This cat, Sasha, doesn’t look young. That’s because when she was a kitten, Ronald Reagan was still president. Yes, at 33 (!) years old, this is the oldest cat currently alive.
Flattened rainbow.
Rainbows are one of those things that feel special even though they’re pretty common. This kind of rainbow — a horizontal one that fills the whole sky — is far from common.
There wasn’t always a lake here.
If you’re wondering why trees are growing in the middle of Kazakhstan’s Kaindy Lake, it’s because the lake is young. It was formed back in 1911 after an earthquake in the area.
This isn’t how you tree.
This tree looks like it’s a failure, but it really has no choice. In parts of Western Australia, the winds blow so consistently that unprotected trees grow horizontally.
Skunky boi.
This is a melanistic red fox. Because of a melanin imbalance, the fox isn’t red at all, but fully black. I’ll bet a few people have mistaken this one for a large, predatory skunk.
Left to rot.
The MS World Discoverer traveled the world for years, but after striking a rock in the Solomon Islands, this little cove is the last place it’ll discover. The ship has been lying like this for years.
Picture of the past.
These engravings were found in the Sahara Desert. Although they definitely depict giraffes, we don’t know much more about them. At 10,000 years old, this is a part of prehistory.
Nightmare fuel.
Known as the Old Gentleman of Raahe, this is the oldest surviving diving suit in the world. I would not have wanted to put this thing on.
First class.
This is what passenger planes looked like in 1930. The wicker seats were in place because of their light weight. I think I’d rather fly this than modern economy.
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Putting other planes to shame.
The massive plane in this pic is an Antonov An-225 Mriya, one of the largest to ever take to the skies. The other planes on the tarmac aren’t exactly small, but they’re still dwarfed by this behemoth.
Mechanized cow tipping?
It looks totally weird, but this odd device serves a purpose: to help rotate cows in order to facilitate easier surgery.
Strange visitor.
Pablo Escobar is the most famous drug kingpin in history. At a time when half the world wanted to arrest him, he took the time to visit the White House with his son.
Times have changed.
Before collective bargaining, contract terms were onerous. Just look at what was expected of a schoolteacher back in the early 1920’s.
Something about his eyes.
Heterochromia is a condition that causes eyes to be colored differently. It’s also a condition that ensures people will constantly be staring at your eyes.
