80 Photos That Will Put Your Megalophobia To The Test
I have a touch of megalophobia and I didn’t realize it until I went to Muir Woods. You think you know what a big tree looks like and then you’re standing at the base of one that’s been alive for a thousand years and something just shifts. It’s not fear exactly, more like being stunned be the realization of how small you are.
My wife thought it was funny. I stood there longer than everyone else trying to figure out what I was feeling. There’s something about things being bigger than you expect that just doesn’t sit right, and once you notice it you start seeing it everywhere.
This whole batch from r/megalaphobia is that feeling. These photos will make you feel very, very small.
1. “Sequoia National Park In California”
2. “An Iceberg Passing Near A House In Greenland”
3. “Standing On The Edge Of A Giant Spillway. This Is A No From Me”
4. “Angel Oak, The Oldest Tree East Of The Mississippi”
5. “Ocean-Like Clouds”
6. “The Size Of These Anchor Chains Is Definitely Unsettling”
7. “150 Ft Iceberg Floating By A Small Town In Newfoundland, Canada. Give Me The Heebie”
8. “Veryovkina Cave Is 1/3 The Height Of Everest Downwards”
9. “Blue Whale. Photo By @d_fordesign”
10. “Infinite Lavender Field In Valensole, South Of France”
11. “Antarctica Seen From Space”
12. “This Was The Only Image I Found To Represent It”
13. “Elephant Foot Glacier In Greenland”
14. “Off The Nā Pali Coast On Kauaʻi, Hawaii”
15. “Do Clouds Give You That Feeling?”
16. “You’re At The Beach And Out Of Nowhere A Massive Submarine Get Out Of The Water”
17. “Underwater Waterfall, Mauritius”
18. “Human Compared To The Pyramid Of Giza”
19. “Varanasi, India During A Major Festival Night”
20. “Jadayupara, The Largest Avian Sculpture In The World”
21. “A Big Hairy Unicorn That Existed As Early As 29,000 Years Ago”
22. “Didn’t Know The Coast Of England Is That Massive And Impressive”
23. “Does This Count?”
24. “In 1957, The Remains Of 9 Neanderthals Were Found In The Shanidar Cave In Iraq. This Was Their Home 65,000 Years Ago”
25. “Always Forget How Massive These Supercarriers That America Builds Actually Are”
26. “Olympus Mons – The Tallest Mountain In The Solar System”
27. “The Coast Of Namibia”
28. “The Naga Cave In Thailand Looks Like A Giant Petrified Snake”
29. “Giant Cranes Being Delivered To Liverpool Docks”
30. “Biggest Ship Elevator In The World, The Three Gorges Dam Shiplift”
31. “Mount Taranaki”
32. “The Enormous 18th-Century Flags Of The French Ship Généreux And The Spanish Ship San Ildefonso, Pictured With People For Scale”
33. “Tree Tunnel In Amsterdam”
34. “Cave Of The Crystal’s Mexico”
35. “Massive Building Looks Small Next To Massive Tower”
36. “A380 Flying Pass The Moon And The True Size Of It”
37. “The Largest Submarines Ever Built”
“Typhoon-Class Soviet Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Subs Displaced 48,000 Tonnes Submerged, Stretched 175m Long, Had Two Reactors, Triple Hulls, And Were Designed To Survive Under Arctic Ice With Unprecedented Crew Comfort”
38. “A Shot Of Burning Man That Looks Like A Solar System”
39. “A Man Standing In The Lumberyard Of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939”
40. “The Ancient Theatre Of Delphi, Greece”
41. “It’s Not What You Think It Is”
42. “Petra, Jordan Temple Compared To Average-Height Human Beings!”
43. “The ‘Swim Call’ Is A Tradition In The U.S. Navy – While The Ship Is Deployed, Sailors Can Swim On The High Seas Next To The Looming Ship”
44. “The Head Of The Statue Of Liberty”
45. “At 74.5 Meters (244 Ft), Hallgrímskirkja Is The Largest Church In Iceland And One Of The Tallest Structures In The Country”
46. “Leeza Soho Tower While Under Construction”
47. “St. Mary’s Cathedral, Tokyo Japan”
48. “On February 7, 1984, Astronaut Bruce Mccandless Ventured Out Into Space And Away From Shuttle Challenger Using Only A Nitrogen Propelled Backpack — The First Person In History To Do So”
49. “This Picture Of The Empire State Building The Year It Was Built (1930)”
50. “Stone Mountain, A Giant Granite Monolith Near Atlanta, Georgia Is About 514 Meters Above Sea Level”
51. “672 Ton Church Being Moved Across Kiruna, Sweden Right Now”
52. “1936 Concept Of Making The Eiffel Tower Accessible By Car”
53. “Hoover Dam Overflow Tunnel, Arizona Side”
54. “The Typhoon Is A Class Of Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarines Built By The Soviet Union, With A Submerged Displacement Of 48,000 Tones”
55. “The Rarely Seen Back Of The Hoover Dam Before It Was Filled With Water, 1936”
56. “Elephant Rock In Iceland”
57. “I Shot Amanar Rising Over Our Dune Camp In The Sahara, Surrounded By Dunes As Far As The Eye Can See”
58. “Tallest Statue In Africa”
59. “A Large Tunneling System Exists Deep Underneath New York City:”
60. “Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam Power Station Accident In Russia”
61. “How Big A Megalodon Would Have Been”
62. “Completion Of The Main Cavern Dome Section Of The Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment”
63. “Imagine Seeing This While You Are Surfing”
64. “A Mosquito Flying Over Camera Lens”
65. “Man Made Mountain In Germany Because Of Mining”
66. “The Sheer Size Of Tokyo”
67. “Something About Mount Mckinley Makes Me Feel Even More Uneasy Than Mount Everest”
68. “This Photo Of Tokyo Looks Like Giants On The Horizon”
69. “Sinking Of The Costa Concordia”
70. “This Ore Train Makes Me Feel Uneasy”
71. “Lion’s Head Rock In Japan”
72. “Stelco’s D-Blast Furnace, Right Before Demolition. For Context”
73. “The Quetzalcoatlus, The Largest Known Flying Animal That Ever Existed”
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75. “Gullfaks A Oil Platform, Norway”
76. “How’s This One?”
77. “Shiprock In New Mexico, Towering 1,583 Feet (482 M) Above The High-Desert Plain”
78. “The Day That A Ship Flew”
79. “Nuclear Defense Pyramid Exploration”
80. “Tsar Nicholas Bathtub”
