Mike
Ever stumbled upon something so staggeringly huge that you just had to grab the nearest person and say, “Here, stand next to this, I need to prove it’s not a Photoshop job”? Well, you’re not alone.
We’ve scoured the corners of the Earth (and the internet) to bring you a jaw-dropping collection of cool pictures featuring objects of such unbelievable size, they had to be photographed with a human for scale. From colossal fruits that defy horticultural logic, to ancient trees towering like nature’s skyscrapers, these images capture the sheer wonder of our world’s oversized oddities.
So, prepare to have your mind blown as we take you on a visual journey that showcases the extraordinary scale of the seemingly ordinary, proving that sometimes, size really does matter.
1. A Tunnel Dug By The Giant Ground Sloth In Brazil (10,000 Years Ago)
2. Mycena subcyanocephala
3. Pizza – Big Lou’s Pizza – San Antonio, Texas
4. Bedouin tents in Morocco
5. 1919; Seattle, Washington. Stacks of lumber drying at the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company’s mill in Ballard.
6. Military drones are bigger than I thought.
7. Triceratops femur (left) vs Elephant femur (right)
8. At a place that makes windshields for vehicles, the excess glass gets blown off to the side. This is the excess, with a human for scale. My first post here. Hope it fits.
9. The German airship ‘Hindenburg’ takes shape in 1932.
10. Squid
11. Inside LNG cargo tanker
12. This 122-foot (37 m) snow woman built by locals in Bethel, Maine, USA, had 27-foot (8.2 m) evergreen trees for arms and skis for eyelashes, and holds the Guinness world record for being the tallest snow person.
13. Twin scroll supercharger for a marine engine.
14. 10Mb hard drive from the late 1960’s
15. The largest airship hangar, now transformed into a water resort (people at bottom)
16. My Lego creation of a Covenant Assault Carrier
17. 1959 Kenworth 963 6×6
18. Giant South African Bullfrog.
19. My husband climbing redwoods. Dead center. Looks like he’s sitting on the branch cutting through the middle horizontally.
20. Nuclear reactor being forged
21. PAGEOS, an early satellite. 100′ in diameter, it was put into orbit so that radio signals could be bounced off of it.
22. The massive wooden Sibley Breaker in Pennsylvania. Built in 1886, destroyed by fire in 1906.
23. The tusk of a mammoth found in Siberia
24. One of the biggest and most stunning stepwells in the entire world is the Chand Baori.
25. Brest Hero – Fortress Brest – Brest, Belarus
26. Hindenburg airship
27. Traveling by blimp in the 1920s
28. You don’t really get a good sense of scale from the ground
29. Statue of Ramesses II – Grand Egyptian Museum – Giza, Egypt
30. Absaloute unit of guinea pig
31. The amphibious WWII landing craft vehicle at Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, TN
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33. Argentinosaurus leg
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35. Absolute door unit
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