When Only A Human Side-By-Side Tells The True Tale Of Size

Seeing is Believing: When the World's Wonders Tower Beside Us

Davy

• Published in Interesting
• March 10, 2024

Have you ever seen something so huge that you had to ask someone to stand beside it just to show it's actually real and not edited? You're definitely not the only one.

We've searched all over the planet (and the web) to find you some amazing photos of really big things that are so hard to believe, they needed a person in the picture to show how big they are. Imagine giant fruits that seem too big to be real, or massive trees that reach up high like the tallest buildings. These photos show how incredible and strangely large things in our world can be.

Get ready to be amazed as we take you through a collection of photos that highlight how big some everyday things can actually be, proving that sometimes, size is a big deal.

1. A Tunnel Dug By The Giant Ground Sloth In Brazil (10,000 Years Ago)

2. Mycena subcyanocephala

3. Pizza – Big Lou’s Pizza – San Antonio, Texas

4. Bedouin tents in Morocco

5. 1919; Seattle, Washington. Stacks of lumber drying at the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company’s mill in Ballard.

6. Military drones are bigger than I thought.

7. Triceratops femur (left) vs Elephant femur (right)

8. At a place that makes windshields for vehicles, the excess glass gets blown off to the side.

9. The German airship ‘Hindenburg’

10. Squid

11. Inside LNG cargo tanker

12. This 122-foot (37 m) snow woman built by locals in Bethel, Maine, USA

He had 27-foot (8.2 m) evergreen trees for arms and skis for eyelashes, and holds the Guinness world record for being the tallest snow person.

13. Twin scroll supercharger for a marine engine.

14. 10Mb hard drive from the late 1960’s

15. The largest airship hangar, now transformed into a water resort (people at bottom)

16. My Lego creation of a Covenant Assault Carrier

17. 1959 Kenworth 963 6×6

18. Giant South African Bullfrog.

19. My husband climbing redwoods.

Dead center. Looks like he’s sitting on the branch cutting through the middle horizontally.

20. Nuclear reactor being forged

21. PAGEOS, an early satellite

100′ in diameter, it was put into orbit so that radio signals could be bounced off of it.

22. The massive wooden Sibley Breaker in Pennsylvania.

Built in 1886, destroyed by fire in 1906.

23. The tusk of a mammoth found in Siberia

Stepwells In Chand Baori

Brest Hero – Fortress Brest – Brest, Belarus

26. Hindenburg airship

27. Traveling by blimp in the 1920s

28. You don’t really get a good sense of scale from the ground

29. Statue of Ramesses II

30. Absaloute unit of guinea pig

31. The amphibious WWII landing craft

33. Argentinosaurus leg

35. Absolute door unit

Davy