30 Fascinating Images From Alternate Angles You May Not Have Seen Before

Most of the pictures in this post are of things everyone knows, but all of them are from angles we’ve never seen.

The page Alternate Angles specializes in this.

Here are 30 of the best we’ve seen.

1. Not sure if this counts but, the Grand Canyon view from a plane

2. Sunset from space

3. Mount Rushmore before the Presidents were carved in. It was called Six Fathers at this point.

4. The Sphinx from above

5. Forbidden angle

6. An elephant trunk seen from below (photo credit @brenden_simonson)

7. Albert Einstein before his famous photo with his tongue out

8. Underside of a horseshoe crab

9. The iconic photo of Michael Jordan which turned into the logo

10. William D. Nuñez took this picture of AA Flight 175 on September 11th, seconds before the plane hit the South Tower.

11. Great Pyramid of Giza (from the sky)

12. I’ve never walked directly under an electricity pylon before! There’s some brilliant symmetry.

13. A flying giant squirrel from India (Petaurista philippensis) caught in the act on a sunny day

14. News anchor from the other angle

15. Cars never claimed from Giants stadium commuter lot after 9/11

16. Saturn’s North Pole is a hexagon.

17. A photo of central park during the great depression (1933).

18. Aerial view of over 400,000 people at the Woodstock, 1969.

19. World, Pacific Ocean view

20. The 15 mile-long shadow of Mt. Fuji in Japan.

21. Hedgehog getting an X-Ray

22. New York’s Manhattan without skyscrapers

23. I’d never seen this angle of the Sydney Opera House and it looked different to me

24. Under a mushroom cap

25. The inside of a cello

26. Golden Gate bridge under construction

27. The space shuttle from the top.

28. Venice from above

29. Michelangelo’s ‘The Creation of Adam’ as seen on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

30. The Oval Office Between Presidents