30 Photos Of Huge Things That Will Both Terrify You And Remind You How Small Humans Are

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There’s a whole subreddit, r/Megalophobia, dedicated to pictures of things that are just too big — ship propellers the size of houses, dams that don’t look like they should exist, statues you can see from miles out.

Megalophobia is the fear of exactly this stuff, and even if you don’t technically have it, a few of these will make your stomach do something weird. We’ve rounded up the best recent posts below — and if these somehow aren’t enough large things for you, there’s a whole earlier batch at that second link.

1. “The largest hotel in the world, with a staggering 10,000 rooms is currently under construction in Saudi Arabia.”

2. “Worlds without end”

3. “This building is entirely too big, and I wasn’t even all the way up. Zoom in for people.”

4. “the sheer size of the Pacific.”

5. “The Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10”

6. “The Hotel Grand Lisboa viewed from the streets of Macau. The Hotel Grand Lisboa viewed from the streets of Macau.”

7. “Too high.Too steep”

8. “Boat under the bridge”

9. “This picture was taken in the year 1919 in Seattle, Washington. Stacks of lumber drying at the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company’s mill in Ballard. The stacks of drying lumber were over 50 feet high. In this photo, a workman stands partway up one of the tall stacks of drying.”

10. “It is Never too Early or Too Late to Hug a Tree. Photo by Anastasia Tveretinov.”

11. “The Cheese Bender waits for a challenger in his infinite corridor of parmigiano reggiano”

12. “Crochet cat.”

13. “Oil rig platform being towed into the sea. The platform itself is dwarfing the luxurious hotel on the left”

14. “Giant propellers of the cruise ship ‘Symphony of the Seas'”

15. “Just moved to a new state, these water towers are everywhere”

16. “Tallest statue in Africa”

17. “I was in St. Peters Basilica this afternoon, people for scale.”

18. “This saltwater crocodile”

19. “Mt. Fuji view from a nearby town.”

20. “This is how big anchor chains are. it makes sense but dang”

21. “Comet compared to Los Angeles.”

22. “It is the tallest statue of Nyoirin Kannon in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.”

23. “Damn, that’s big.”

24. “Whale spine”

25. “Redwood trees”

26. “It was foggy in my town the other day and I captured this terrifying scene”

27. “This is just one picture”

28. “A full-sized school bus next to haul trucks”

29. “A bridge in Vietnam.”

30. “Sequoia in a coniferous forest”