35 Fascinating Pictures Of Things Cut In Half, Revealing The Inner Workings
I was absolutely obsessed with Incredible Cross-Sections when I was a kid. I could spend hours staring at those pages, tracing every pipe, gear, and hidden room, completely fascinated by how things actually worked on the inside.
That curiosity never really went away. There’s just something deeply satisfying about seeing an object sliced clean in half and suddenly understanding it in a way you never did before.
These photos tap right into that same feeling, revealing the inner workings of everyday things and reminding me why cross-sections are endlessly cool, weirdly calming, and impossible to stop looking at.
1. Firework shell
2. A king crabber in calm water on the Bering sea showing carb in the holds
3. Fukang meteorite
4. Deathstar
5. The Amazing Anatomy of The Thing.
6. Bloodwood tree (Pterocarpus angolensis)
7. Cut banana tree trunks
8. Pearls
9. Bob’s Burgers
10. Camera Lens
11. Tree cut into lumber
12. Old style Zippo lighter
13. CT Scanner
14. Tortoise skeleton
15. Rattle snake rattle
16. Land Rover
17. Cactus
18. Military tank
19. Bowling ball
20. Canon camera
21. Simulation to what happens when a small space debris object hits a spacecraft
22. Fragmentation grenade
23. Tree fern
24. Poppy capsule
25. ‘Lasagna’ style bulb planting
26. Section of Golden Gate bridge cable
27. Accordion
28. ‘Mark Twain Tree’ sequoia section with historical notations from year 550 to 1891
29. Subsea power cable
30. Wasp nest
31. Washington State Ferry
32. Arctic Research Station
33. Exploded view of PS1
34. HMS Victory wooden model cross section.
35. The Two-Horsepower Burlington Bay Ferry, which worked the Basin Harbor (Vermont) to Westport (New York) line on Lake Champlain until phased out by steam engine driven successors after the 1840s
