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These are some of the tallest abandoned structures built on Earth. Each of them having a certain story behind their existence. 

They range all over the globe from Moscow to Detroit, pictures taken from different angles and floors.

At first glance, David Trautimas’s photographs seem to depict steampunk worlds with odd shapes and designs. Once you look closer, however, you find that Trautimas has created a world made up of re-purposed kitchen and hardware items that have been brought together to create some sort of crazy industrial design.

Dubbed “Habitat Machines”, the series is inspiring in its detail and shows how much you can get out of things lying around your house.

What’s wrong with the above picture? Both models are nicely posed, there’s great sunlight, and, of course, smiles all around. And they appear to be in love even after all these years. But there’s more “love” in that picture than you can find at your first glance.

There are two donkeys making sweet love in the background. Oh yes, they are.

Julie Ziesemann was the photographer who froze this moment. And no, she didn’t notice it while shooting, nor while editing.

I’ve never laughed so hard in a long time. Heck, I’d pay to see the faces of those two when she shows them the portrait!

Where do planes go when they die? Surely there has to be a plane heaven, but where would that exist? Mojave Air and Spaceport, where else!

The place has been in lockdown since 9/11 and has a high-security perimeter that doesn’t allow any civilians inside the base. It is now used as a parking lot for planes and also a junkyard of planes that will never be flown again.

Ransom Riggs of mental_floss managed to get inside and take some really awesome photographs of the aeroplane graveyard. Some of them are extremely beautiful and serve as great reminders of human engineering.

Tired of speed cameras always monitoring your speed limit?  It looks like that there is a new speed limit you will have to worry about. Well from the picture, your wondering, is there any speed limit there?

This unfortunate place is a village in Switzerland.  In fact someone commented

Hitting Cunter too fast can result in injury. Follow the speed limit.

It is difficult to explain what exactly Burning Man is, but whatever it is, the project is made of pure awesome. The whole thing is said to be an experience that has to be felt firsthand. But for those of us who can’t make it, Neil Girling has put up some amazing photos from the event in this Flickr set.

More pictures are said to be coming in, but the ones that are already there are breathtaking. It is a must-see for everyone who is even remotely interested.

Trees gone wild. Directions gone crazy. Urinating on roads. Welcome to the world of outrageous signs.

This group on Flickr is home to quite a few humorously wrong and outrageous signs from all over the world. More words shouldn’t be wasted on such beauty – just see them for yourself.

From the science-being-used-right department comes word of a group of technology researchers in Washington who are attempting to construct a three-dimensional model of the city of Rome from photos found on Flickr.

Their site notes that entering the search term “Rome” in Flickr returns more than two million photographs. Apparently, people take pictures of every nook and cranny when they visit Rome, as they are combining all those images to form a three dimensional shape of the city.

And all this is being done in a day.

So far the results are pretty amazing. Hope they extend it to other cities.

At first glance, the picture above seems like an ordinary family photo, showing possibly a mother and her child. What if I told you that the two people are the one and the same?

Surprised? Don’t be. Chino Otsuka, a Japanese photographer, took it upon herself to travel to places where she had been before to try out some time-shift photography, and damn, the results are amazing.

Travelling on a “time machine built from digital tools,” Otsuka crafts these terrific portraits of herself in both 1976 and 2005, presenting her young and less young selves.