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.
This post may include affiliate links.
Salar De Uyuni, The World's Largest Salt Flat In Bolivia
Boat Looks Like It's Floating In The Air
Zhangye Danxia Landform In Gansu, China
Trees In Schonbrunn Park
Lenticular Clouds
Frozen Pond In Switzerland
Burned-Out Utility Pole
Hausmannian Building On Georges V Ave. In Paris
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".
Love it. I'd would of love to seen it in person. Love painting in trompe l'oeil style.
Load More Replies...
I hope that inside the walls and floors will be normal, or it would be impossible to live there!
This is actually a huge canvas put up by the people who are renovating the building!
Makes me think of that famous line from the Wizard of Oz - I'm meeeeeltiiiiinggggg......
who needs the beach when u can catch the wave and remain high and dry on land!
This is so cool. The classical Haussmannian building in Paris is being renovated and the owner hired Athem, a specialist in temporary architecture, to create a screen to hide the renovation. The trompe l'oeil (literally - 'fool the eye') facade is made of printed canvas and bas-relief sculpture of polystyrene, resin, and metal. The wavy windows and twisted balconies are an architectural equivalent of Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory. Cool because it allows us to see familiar surroundings in a new way - to see possibilities and to make connections. Located at 39 Avenue George V in the 8th Arrondissement, Paris. i November
Actually, IT IS not real. It is printed canvas by ATHEM (http://www.athem-skertzo.com/) to hide the renovations. (http://untappedcities.com/2011/07/06/the-melting-trompe-loeil-from-2008/, http://03408a2.netsolhost.com/WordPress/2007/07/01/archive-2007/)
The classical Haussmannian building in Paris is being renovated and the owner hired Athem, a specialist in temporary architecture, to create a screen to hide the renovation. The trompe l’oeil (literally – ‘fool the eye’) facade is made of printed canvas and bas-relief sculpture of polystyrene, resin, and metal. The wavy windows and twisted balconies are an architectural equivalent of Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory. Cool because it allows us to see familiar surroundings in a new way – to see possibilities and to make connections. Located at 39 Avenue George V in the 8th Arrondissement, Paris. November 18
this is not how the building actually looks: Haussmannian building in Paris is being renovated and the owner hired Athem, a specialist in temporary architecture, to create a screen to hide the renovation. The trompe l’oeil (literally – ‘fool the eye’) facade is made of printed canvas and bas-relief sculpture of polystyrene, resin, and metal. The wavy windows and twisted balconies are an architectural equivalent of Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory. Cool because it allows us to see familiar surroundings in a new way – to see possibilities and to make connections. Located at 39 Avenue George V in the 8th Arrondissement, Paris.
This is photoshop, this can not be reel! Indeed you think you are drunk! Hahaha
It's printed coverings for scaffolding while the building its being renovated. LOL you are too funny!!
Load More Replies...
It is a hoax. http://www.melindalarson.com/2014/08/french-friday-apartment-in-paris.html#.Veh6rJ3BzGc
Dress
No. 10 is not just a 'dress', it's Anja Rubik in a dress from Viktor&Rolf spring/summer 2010 show
A Pile Of Timber Reflecting In A Puddle
Sculpture In New Zealand
Undulatus Asperatus
Looks like a demon coming down from the heavens. Cool!
Falling Book Sculpture By Alicia Martin
Mammatus Clouds
A Guy Dropped A Pair Of Hula Hoops (Potato Snacks) Into Coffee And Saw A Bird
Trees After Toxic Waste Spill In Western Hungary
Glowworms Cave, New Zealand
3d Grass Globe Illusion At Paris City Hall
Her Outfit Matches The Beach
Sand Dunes In Namib Desert, Namibia
A Team Of Scientists, Engineers, And Two World-Class Balloon Pilots Successfully Launched A House With 300 Weather Balloons
Phytoplankton Glowing On Maldives Beach
Funny Dog Perspective
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?
Blue Pond In Japan
Lake Retba, Senegal
Sinkhole In Downtown Guatemala City
Do ppl here live in constant fear of falling in that hole? So scary!! :(
Half-Graffiti Room, Marseille, France
Thus is from a hotel where each room is done by 2 different artists. Very neat!
Sculptures In The Forest
Roll Clouds
The Ayam Cemani Chicken Breed
Pink Katydids Are The Result Of A Rare Genetic Mutation
Red Plants In Panjin Beach, China
Floor Art
Still brilliant. Yet, I would not be able to walk on it. Just looking at it makes me sick to my stomach
Fishermen Row A Boat In An Algae-filled Lake In China
The Left-Hand Side Is A Mirror, And The Right-Hand Side Is Clear Glass, With A Friend Standing On The Other Side
Glass Gem Corn
now, this one is fake. Correct me if l'm wrong, but these are clearly jellybeans
Artist Turns Her Small Studio Room Into Surreal Dreamscapes
3d Art By George Rousse
Hole House Installation
you could actually go in and only just crawl out the other side, but then it was taken down
Magic Tap Fountain
Parking Garage Optical Illusion
Sylvan Lake, Custer State Park, Sd
Setenil De Las Bodegas Town In Spain
Photo Made Using Scale Model Sets And Real Models
Salar De Uyuni - Bolivian Salt Flats
So Clear Water.. Boats Seems Floating In Air..
Massive Sun, Massive Sunset
Fog In Center Hungary Below Water Tower
Noosa Everglades, Australia
Field From A Balloon
Just An Ordinary Day.
Moheshkhali Island Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Sunset At Pagudpud Beach, Ilocos Philippines
Reflection
After The Rain In Verona,italy
Ferry Apparently... Taking Off From Skiathos Airport
l don't see it. l get what it is telling us about, but l still don't see it
Sun Behind Post Light For The Perfect Shadow Shot
the last ones are just lazy and not even mind blowing! The first ones though... Gawd
Almost all of them were soo beautiful and some were pretty cool! I loved them!
the last ones are just lazy and not even mind blowing! The first ones though... Gawd
Almost all of them were soo beautiful and some were pretty cool! I loved them!
