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Locomotives in their natural habitat

Pareidolia (Seeing faces)

Expanding Black Hole Illusion

Mind-blowing facts about optical illusions

Bezold effect fabric

Bezold Effect

Most Awesome Illusions

In this grate optical illusion, the shadow doesn't match up with the object

Grate Optical Illusion

grumpy tree illusion pareidolia

Grumpy tree

impossible woodwork, impossible object in real life

Impossible woodwork

Sand bear

Sand Bear

Mother nature breastfeeding

Mother Nature

Floating cat head

Peacock with its head in the ground

Peacock with its head in the ground

Lake Sørvágsvatn is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Lake Above the Ocean

Just a door in the middle of a beautiful scene, makes the background look like a giant wall with a live wallpaper.

Live Wallpaper

Giant party in the skyline

Giant Party in the Skyline

Man running into the sky

Running into the sky

The man on the left is not standing in the water next to the boat. He is sitting with his friends in the boat.

Next to the boat

Rice field looks like reflection

Reflected rice fields

This car roof is perfectly polished

Perfectly Polished

This optical illusion of an ominous bird is actually a moth orchid

Ominous bird

This is Cascada la Novia (Waterfall of the Bride), a cascade in Peru.

Bride Waterfall

Door handle optical illusion reflection

Door handle

deflated dog

Deflated dog

Yosemite Firefall is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Firefall

Gravity hills

Gravity hills

Screaming up or down?

Howling wolf cloud

Howling Wolf

Stairs inside a cabinet

Stairs Inside a Cabinet

Realistic painting

Realistic Painting

Shoebill, No egrets, Herun

Shoebill?

Reflective bird

Reflective bird

This photo is not a composite, but rather zoomed in until it is hard to recognize what you are seeing. The orange color on the right is a retaining wall.

Separation

Screw hole

Street in Macau

The Invasion

The Yangzhou Zhongshuge bookstore has an optical illusion created by reflection

Tunnel of Books

Prehistoric snake

Prehistoric Snake

Escher drawing IRL

Escher drawing IRL

These migrating horses are actually shadows of zebras.

Migrating horses

a giant in the forest or real life ent

Giant in the Forest

Penrhyn Castle in Wales looks like a swamp monster

Swamp monster

This fungus is named Xylaria polymorpha, but more commonly known as dead man's fingers. This example is a perfect illusion, with 5 digits and more shaped like a hand than other specimens. It really looks like a zombie is going to rise up from the ground.

Dead Man’s Fingers

Footprint in the sand

Plane crash illusion

Plane Crash

Magic Sword

Man skydiving into Burning Man festival

A Festival for Ants

Deadvlei in Namibia is a great landmark to photograph optical illusions

The Starry Night (in Africa)

disappearing trailer

Disappearing trailer

Mimetolith

Green Kong

These big women in Paris are a perfect example of Forced Perspective

Big women

Sexy Birch Tree

Sexy Birch

mysterious tree pareidolia

Mysterious tree

High-rise buildings optical illusion

High-rise buidings

Snapdragon seed pods looking like pixy skulls

Pixie Skulls

The black dog looks like it is floating above the sunbed

Floating Dog

The sun eclipsed by a basketball

Solar Eclipse

concave and convex

The same image

Photoshop street art

Erased Street Art

impossible woodwork

Impossible woodwork

Sink draining looks like an eye

Mesmerizing eye

Sutro tower in San Francisco fog

Flying Dutchman

$This optical illusion by Alexandre Meneghini of two women with big bottoms swimming in Cuba in 2015 is a classis example of refraction.$

Big bottoms

Volcano ash cloud pareidolia

Magayon and Pangaronon

A dock to the sky

Dock to the sky

Canoeing in a winter wonderland

Canoe in the Winter

This fire demon signals the apocolypse

Fire demon

tree eye

Eye of a tree

UFO ready for takeoff

UFO

The eye of a cyber poppy

Cyber Poppy

too many legs to climb this ladder

Too many legs

This dancing twigs art is an example of pareidolia

Nature’s Dance

Seeing Eye Dog illusion

Seeing Eye Dog

The pensive olive tree

The Pensive Olive Tree

Two giants thanks to forced perspective

Two giants

This deformed building is a temporary art installation to hide renovation work

Deformed Building

hills with trees

Hills and trees

This lake view garden does not have a lake in sight

Lake View Garden

This optical illusion of a skywalker is actually a man jumpping in the Dnipro river in Kiev.

Skywalker

Body art parrot

Parrot

This is the volcano Mount Etna in Sicily erupting. The bright lava against an almost invisible mountain looks like a Phoenix (or Mutalisk)

Phoenix rising

A starry night sky optical illusion

A Starry Night Sky

This mangrove tree is leaving the beach on tippy toes.

Tippy toes

Rakotzbrücke was designed the create an optical illusion

Full Circle

Zombies attack

Zombie Attack

Water drop on the kitchen floor

Water drop

The underwater waterfall in Mauritius is a landmark that is an optical illusion

Underwater Waterfall

Music notes

Music Notes

Man playing with toy cars

Toy Cars

2d stairs optical illusion

2D stairs

Shark Attack

Shark Attack

Pigeons sitting on wires creating shit music

Shit music

Bushfire optical illusion

Bushfire

This skull optical illusion was created for the Penny Dreadful Season 3 poster.

Skull

Jupiter close-up

Jupiter

This is an optical illusion artwork by Kostya Terentev. Filmed from directly above, you can see only the shadows of the people.

Shadow Avatars

Strained Expression

God of all cats

God of all Cats

Multi-legged bird

Freak of Nature

This eye of the tower is watching over Verona, from the 84 meter high Torre dei Lamberti.

The eye of the tower

Asthmatic cat gets pumped up.

Pump it up!

photo doctored by NASA

NASA doctored photos?

Shades of sheep in pens look like dried beans in this drone photo.

Assorted Dried Beans

Grate view of Central Park

Grate View of Central Park

Kobi Levi shoes. best for stairs

Best for Stairs

This photo was taken in Kazakhstan and quickly named 'Eye of God' by people online. Obviously, this is just a case of pareidolia.

Eye of God

Goal perspective

Goal perspective