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70 Mind-Bending Photos That Seem Fake But Are Actually Real
If you've spent a decent amount of time on the Internet, you've probably developed a healthy skepticism – you shouldn't always believe what you see online, because it's fairly easy to falsify with Photoshop. These images, however, will turn your caution on its head – though all of these images look like they might be fake, each is 100% real!
Some of these images are of unexpected coincidences or exotic locations, but many also involve works of art intentionally designed by artists to subvert our certainty in what is real.
If you've ever seen something in real life that looked like it couldn't possibly be real, we'd love to see it too! Add it to this list and upvote your favorites as well.
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#1
Salar De Uyuni, The World's Largest Salt Flat In Bolivia
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#2
Boat Looks Like It's Floating In The Air
Jannie Hoek 5 years ago
What your talking about Willis. Water doesn’t reflect every angle.
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#3
Zhangye Danxia Landform In Gansu, China
NuniksGayatri 10 years ago
This one's photoshopped. The real one has gradations but not that colorful.
Isobel Seymour 9 years ago
These mountains are breathtaking but this is either touched up afterwards or the camera has a special filter. They are even more beautiful than this because they are pale to rugged natural colours and more vivid after rain but never do they reach Disney colours I'm glad to say. See them in their true beauty at isciencetimes.com. If you are looking for wonderful colours for your home decorating see the real thing!
#4
Trees In Schonbrunn Park
#5
Lenticular Clouds
#6
Frozen Pond In Switzerland
#7
Burned-Out Utility Pole
SteveFord 10 years ago
That or it was a BLACK DRAGON!!! (They breath ACID)
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RichelleTong 10 years ago
shouldn't they take that thing off? it's putting weight on the wires when it should be holding it up... it might damage the wires, or worse...
JannaGalère 10 years ago
It's attached at the top, so it's being held up by the rest of the network.
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KathyLaPan 10 years ago
I don't understand, are the wires so taut they're holding it in place?
#8
Hausmannian Building On Georges V Ave. In Paris
Aosera 10 years ago
Everybody saying image is fake, it is not. This is a picture of the 39 George V building in Paris during it's renovation in 2007. A canvas was placed over the building to hide it during renovation. It is an art form "trompe l'oeil".
AnnRos'a 10 years ago
Love it. I'd would of love to seen it in person. Love painting in trompe l'oeil style.
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CatharinaGeerts 10 years ago
I hope that inside the walls and floors will be normal, or it would be impossible to live there!
#9
Dress
EdgarKwasniewski 10 years ago
No. 10 is not just a 'dress', it's Anja Rubik in a dress from Viktor&Rolf spring/summer 2010 show
KellyNoble 10 years ago
no 10. is a dress...and tho interesting...it's not one that i think is wearable and wanted. it's on the runway for shock value, nothing else.
#10
A Pile Of Timber Reflecting In A Puddle
#11
Sculpture In New Zealand
Squishy Makeover 3 years ago
As an artist this is very cool yet quite simple. The pieces on the side of the sculpture with clouds are just there but where any of the color is it’s filled in fully and painted.
karenwillenbucher 10 years ago
what is the sculpture in new zealand supposed to be? sometimes i just don't get it!
#12
Undulatus Asperatus
DonnaNiedzialkowski-Imbrogno 10 years ago
Looks like a demon coming down from the heavens. Cool!
Isy 9 years ago
There was a man made colour drawing in a children's book of Bible stories I had and the sky was just like this. God was angry and was trying to stop the people from building the tower of Babel. I'm not particularly religious but I do remember that sky and how menacing it looked.
BeckyBoman 10 years ago
I've seen this over the Sierra Nevada's in northern ca. Pretty amazing!
#13
Falling Book Sculpture By Alicia Martin
TeresaWright 10 years ago
Maybe they aren't real..it does say SCULPTURE! :P
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KellyNoble 10 years ago
I think its an amazing work of art. However. Will it with stand nature and years??
#14
Mammatus Clouds
#15
A Guy Dropped A Pair Of Hula Hoops (Potato Snacks) Into Coffee And Saw A Bird
DanielleFlather 10 years ago
I thought this was one of those intentional cream art things that some coffee places do.
DilshardAhmed 10 years ago
Not a coffee person, more tea person. But if coffee comes like that i'd probably switch allegiance. (-:
#16
Trees After Toxic Waste Spill In Western Hungary
MariahBreitung 10 years ago
Would be nice if you added sources and descriptions of the photos! I would like to know why the clouds look like that. The the ice looks like that. How they managed to make a dress look like that.
AnonymousCritic 10 years ago
I like how the person in the back is part red part green too. . .
#17
Glowworms Cave, New Zealand
Squishy Makeover 3 years ago
I love the little finds in nature that give you hope that everything has something good in it
#18
3d Grass Globe Illusion At Paris City Hall
OliviaHauptfleisch 10 years ago
This is great fun. Love the house in Paris I want to live there
#19
Her Outfit Matches The Beach
#20
Sand Dunes In Namib Desert, Namibia
CaitlinLane 10 years ago
Haha no way!!!!!!! Are you serious? this is amazing!
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#21
A Team Of Scientists, Engineers, And Two World-Class Balloon Pilots Successfully Launched A House With 300 Weather Balloons
LeslieNeal 10 years ago
Watch the video of it lifting off: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/videos/how-hard-can-it-be/
DubravkoPavlovic 10 years ago
its not a house, but a look-a-like from carton or something... don't be ridiculous...
#22
Phytoplankton Glowing On Maldives Beach
#23
Funny Dog Perspective
LeslieNeal 10 years ago
Sunny days sweeping the clouds away. On my way to where the air is clean. Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
#24
Blue Pond In Japan
#26
Lake Retba, Senegal
DilshardAhmed 10 years ago
A couloured pond for Barbie (-: but it does look polluted, sadly. Lovely shot though.
AdlaiRosario 10 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Retba Really. Google is your friend. Wikipedia makes a great buddy. This took five seconds to pull up. It's not pollution.
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ArianaEnnesser 10 years ago
Its actually just a really high population of a certain type of algae that give it its pink color.
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#27
Sinkhole In Downtown Guatemala City
ApoorvaIyengar 10 years ago
Do ppl here live in constant fear of falling in that hole? So scary!! :(
#28
Half-Graffiti Room, Marseille, France
MichelleEdmundson 10 years ago
Thus is from a hotel where each room is done by 2 different artists. Very neat!
Squishy Makeover 3 years ago
I love the different styles! Also to anyone who’s curious they put tape and peel it off when they finish so no paint gets on the other side
#29
Sculptures In The Forest
#30
Roll Clouds
#31
The Ayam Cemani Chicken Breed
AntoineGagnon 10 years ago
Nope... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu0IDt1XsKg
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#32
Pink Katydids Are The Result Of A Rare Genetic Mutation
#33
Red Plants In Panjin Beach, China
#34
Floor Art
KatjanaSchirmer 10 years ago
Still brilliant. Yet, I would not be able to walk on it. Just looking at it makes me sick to my stomach
IdaWootsyaSoroko 10 years ago
Yeah, a brilliant idea, but just looking at the pic makes me dizzy xD
#35
Fishermen Row A Boat In An Algae-filled Lake In China
#36
The Left-Hand Side Is A Mirror, And The Right-Hand Side Is Clear Glass, With A Friend Standing On The Other Side
#37
Glass Gem Corn
Benjamin Richmond 4 years ago
now, this one is fake. Correct me if l'm wrong, but these are clearly jellybeans
max and the expresso 3 years ago
It been a year since you commented. It real.
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max and the expresso 3 years ago
Unfortunately it is practically inedible.
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#38
Artist Turns Her Small Studio Room Into Surreal Dreamscapes
#39
3d Art By George Rousse
#40
Hole House Installation
jetmastergames 9 years ago
you could actually go in and only just crawl out the other side, but then it was taken down
#41
Magic Tap Fountain
#42
Parking Garage Optical Illusion
Final score:
50points
#43
Sylvan Lake, Custer State Park, Sd
Final score:
48points
#45
Setenil De Las Bodegas Town In Spain
#47
Photo Made Using Scale Model Sets And Real Models
#48
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Final score:
28points
Sophia Simpson 5 years ago
I guess it's supposed to be the reflection, but it looks real to me
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Salar De Uyuni - Bolivian Salt Flats
Final score:
24points
ClioStronk 10 years ago
I have seen similar photo's from a colleague. Because the salt flats are so wide and similar, there is nothing that gives your brains the information to calculate depth. So it is a natural optical illusion.
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So Clear Water.. Boats Seems Floating In Air..
Final score:
22points
Well Hello There 7 years ago
"Clear water"? That water is green! Plus, you can see the ripples behind the boat.
Shakeel Alam 6 years ago
The water is green because it is surrounded by hills on all sides and the green is the reflection of the trees. This is Dawki, Meghalaya and flows along the border or India and bangladesh. Clearest form of water, Can even see 40 feet below at places
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Massive Sun, Massive Sunset
Final score:
21points
#52
Who Said Women Can't Park!!
Final score:
16points
Benjamin Richmond 4 years ago
The photo was taken by someone with a woman's name as their profile. Let us presume that they ARE a woman. l presume that she is taking a photo of her own car. Therefore, it was a woman.
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Fog In Center Hungary Below Water Tower
Final score:
11points
#54
Noosa Everglades, Australia
Final score:
8points
#55
Field From A Balloon
Final score:
5points
#56
Just An Ordinary Day.
Final score:
4points
#57
Moheshkhali Island Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Final score:
2points
#58
Sunset At Pagudpud Beach, Ilocos Philippines
Final score:
2points
#59
Glow In The Dark Paint? Nope!
Final score:
0points
#60
Reflection
Final score:
0points
#61
After The Rain In Verona,italy
Final score:
0points
#62
Verona, The City Of Love...italy
Final score:
-2points
#63
Ferry Apparently... Taking Off From Skiathos Airport
Final score:
-2points
Benjamin Richmond 4 years ago
l don't see it. l get what it is telling us about, but l still don't see it
#64
Sun Behind Post Light For The Perfect Shadow Shot
Final score:
-2points
#65
Dragon Wings
Final score:
-3points
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CharliEdgems 10 years ago
the last ones are just lazy and not even mind blowing! The first ones though... Gawd
Jacey Lynn 5 years ago
Almost all of them were soo beautiful and some were pretty cool! I loved them!
CharliEdgems 10 years ago
the last ones are just lazy and not even mind blowing! The first ones though... Gawd
Jacey Lynn 5 years ago
Almost all of them were soo beautiful and some were pretty cool! I loved them!
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